Kaishucpenauk
| Title |
Kaishucpenauk |
| Caption |
[Sagittaria latifolia Willd.] (Waptoo, duck potato) |
| Source |
©Larry Allain. USGS NWRC. |
| URL |
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SALA2&photoID=sala2_004_avp.tif |
| Creator |
Larry Allain |
| Type |
Photograph |
| Origin |
Internet |
| Notes |
Hariot ; p.17 “A white kind of roots about the bigness of hens egs & nere of that form: their tast was not so good to out seeming as of the other, and therefore their place and manner of growing not so much cared for by us: the inhabitants notwithstanding used to boile & eate many.; {H&D} suggest either Sagittaria sp. (duck potato) or cow parsnip for this plant.; Metsger; p. 170 “The tuberous roots of the Arrowhead were used much for food by the Indians. They were boiled like potatos, or sometimes roasted in the ashes. Lewis and Clark record . . . native tribes (at mouth of Willamette R., Oregon) subsisted chiefly on wapatoo (Sagittaria), an edible root about the size of a hen’s egg and closely resembling a potato.”; Description of Indian woman (along Willamette) collecting ‘wapatoo’. “She takes one of these canoes into a pond where the water is as high as the breast, and by means of her toes, separates from the root this bulb, which upon being freed from the mud, rises immediately to the surface of the water and is thrown into a canoe. ; Radford 1968 ; p.787 Heraculum lanatum Michaux Cow parsnip It is very unlikely that Hariot ever saw this plant. In NC, it is restricted to the higher mountains, west of the Blue Ridge escarpmant.; p.54 Sagittaria latifolia Willd. Wapato, Duck-Potato Not common in Dare Co. area, but present in Coastal Plain. ; Bellis Probably ‘best quess’ on this one is Sagittaria latifolia Willd. Duck Potato; |
Occurrences
Kaishucpenauk
