{"id":7955,"date":"2013-03-27T03:55:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T09:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=7955"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:15:55","slug":"lance-leaf-arrowhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/03\/27\/lance-leaf-arrowhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance-leaf Arrowhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-172702 size-full\" title=\"Lance-leaf Arrowhead in bloom, Roosevelt Wetland, Pinellas County, Florida\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lanced-leaved-arrowhead-mia-mcpherson-7160.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lanced-leaved-arrowhead-mia-mcpherson-7160.jpg\" alt=\"Lance-leaf Arrowhead in bloom, Roosevelt Wetland, Pinellas County, Florida\" width=\"571\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27571%27%20height%3D%27800%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20571%20800%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27571%27%20height%3D%27800%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lanced-leaved-arrowhead-mia-mcpherson-7160-200x280.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lanced-leaved-arrowhead-mia-mcpherson-7160-400x560.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lanced-leaved-arrowhead-mia-mcpherson-7160.jpg 571w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Lance-leaf Arrowhead in bloom &#8211; <em>Sagittaria lancifolia<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spring reminds me of migrating birds, warmer temperatures, disappearing snow and flowers. I photographed this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sagittaria_lancifolia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lance-leaf Arrowhead<\/span><\/a> at Roosevelt Wetland in Pinellas County, Florida several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This herbaceous plant is also called Duck Potato partly because you can cook the tuber for about thirty minutes and eat it like a potato.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/flower-and-tree-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my flower, shrub and tree photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this Lance-leaf Arrowhead at Roosevelt Wetland in Pinellas County, Florida several years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,862,5347],"tags":[6098,11723,37,17287,2174,519,4035,3980,4208,2173,4095,5065,4307],"class_list":["post-7955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","category-roosevelt-wetlands","category-wildflowers","tag-blooming","tag-duck-potato","tag-florida-2","tag-lance-leaf-arrowhead","tag-lanced-leaved-arrowhead","tag-nature","tag-nature-photography","tag-pinellas-county","tag-roosevelt-wetlands","tag-sagittaria-lancifolia","tag-wetlands","tag-white-wildflowers","tag-wildflowers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lanced-leaved-arrowhead-mia-mcpherson-7160.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-24j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14337,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/02\/14\/wildflowers-for-valentines-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":7955,"position":0},"title":"Wildflowers for Valentine&#8217;s Day","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Valentine's Day! 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my favorite wading birds to photograph and I found them in many different types of habitats.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Birds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tricolored Heron at Roosevelt Wetland, Pinellas County, Florida","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tricolored-heron-wetlands-mia-mcpherson-2751.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tricolored-heron-wetlands-mia-mcpherson-2751.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tricolored-heron-wetlands-mia-mcpherson-2751.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, 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