Top photo by Carla Wells
Wild Calla grows from six to 16 inches tall and is a native, perennial in Wisconsin. The flower is a single cylindrical spike sheathed by a smooth, waxy, oval petal-like spathe, at the end of a stout stem arising three to 12 inches above the waterline. The spathe is broadly oval to elliptic, creamy white, one to three inches long and about an inch wide. The leaves are heart-shaped, waxy smooth, and curling inward with basal lobes and edges. Wild Calla grows in part shade or sun in bogs, swamps, wet ditches, and shallow water.
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