Wapato Seeds (Sagittaria latifolia)

Also known as duck potato or arrowroot, Wapato is an acclaimed wild food plant, producing versatile edible tubers that can be prepared like potatoes (roasted, mashed, fried, or apparently even dried and pounded into flour). We know of both historic and contemporary cultivation work with this plant (not simply wild collection), yet it remains an often overlooked, under-examined, and yet fascinating and prolific food plant -- one that can live indefinitely in prime locations, providing sustainable tuber crops year-after-year. Occurring across most of North America, this is a true aquatic perennial found growing both directly in soft-bottomed ponds, wetlands, and along slow-moving rivers, as well as in saturated soils barely above the waterline. Interestingly the tubers (which are borne upon the ends of rhizomes, like potatoes), float, so that once they dislodged from the soil they rise to the surface. This allows the tubers to be carried by currents, finding new places to re-root themsel