hastate

Sagittaria.—Graceful water or marsh plants with hastate leaves, and tuberous, running and fibrous roots.

The hastate leaves are shapely, and the whole plant is charming when grown away from dust.

Principal leaves with a broad truncate, rounded, or hastate base — 6.

The leaves are doubly hastate or halberd shaped, and somewhat wrinkled: the lower ones measure from twelve to fourteen inches in length, and from six to eight in breadth.

Leaves: Alternate, variable, sometimes very large, broad, hastate, ovate, or heart-shaped, wavy-toothed, lobed, or palmately cleft; upper leaves smaller, lance-shaped, entire.