Lizard's Tail

Description:

Perennial to 3 ft. , in water or wet soil. Flowers are fragrant; white, minute, laking petals; in dense 4-12in. drooping spikes.

Habitat:

These were growing in a small backyard pond.

Notes:

The only species of Saururus in North America. Lizard's tail was used by Native tribes in the external treatment of wounds and inflammations and internally for stomach ailments and as a sedative.