arrowhead vs Butterfly-leaf

Sagittaria sagittifolia compared with Adenolobus garipensis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	arrowhead	Butterfly-leaf
Kingdom same	Plantae (Plants)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum same	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Alismatales (Alismatales)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Alismataceae	Fabaceae
Genus	Sagittaria	Adenolobus
Species	Sagittaria sagittifolia	Adenolobus garipensis

Evolutionary Relationship

arrowhead and Butterfly-leaf share a common ancestor at the Phylum level: Magnoliophyta. (Flowering Plants)

Conservation Status

arrowhead

LC — Least Concern

Butterfly-leaf

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	arrowhead	Butterfly-leaf
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

arrowhead

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (India), Europe (7 countries), North America (Mexico), and Oceania and the Pacific (Australia, Fiji).

Butterfly-leaf

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

arrowhead

The Arrowhead, Sagittaria sagittifolia, is a species. It is currently assessed as least concern on the IUCN Red List. Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Butterfly-leaf

The Butterfly-leaf (Adenolobus garipensis) is a species in the genus Adenolobus. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.