Sagittaria natansPall.

WFO wfo-0000770337 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sagittaria natans, photographed by Valentin Kosterin
fig. a Valentin Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-11 / obs. 150055244
Sagittaria natans, photographed by Valentin Kosterin
fig. b Valentin Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150058925
Sagittaria natans, photographed by Алексей Ябс
fig. c Алексей Ябс, CC0 1.0 / obs. 145807997
Sagittaria natans, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. d Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93357991
Sagittaria natans, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. e Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95842713
Sagittaria natans, photographed by Анна
fig. f Анна, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 40585167
Sagittaria natans, photographed by Valentin Kosterin
fig. g Valentin Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150056226
Sagittaria natans, photographed by Юлия
fig. h Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144829277

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Sagittaria natans is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, East European Russia, Finland, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Sweden AltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaEast European RussiaFinlandNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaSweden Korea
Native distribution of Sagittaria natans, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
East European Russia RUE EUROPE
Finland FIN
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Sweden SWE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Sagittaria alpina Willd.
  • Sagittaria alpina var. emersa Turcz.
  • Sagittaria alpina var. submersa Turcz.
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia f. auriculata Kom.
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia f. breviloba Regel
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia f. emersa Kom.
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia f. linearifolia Kom.
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia f. minor Regel
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia var. breviloba Regel
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia var. tenuior Wahlenb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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