Aquatic Plants
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Hardy Lilies
Cliff Tiffany
Pale yellow star shaped flowers which contrast against the dark burgundy leaves.
Clyde Ikins
It has petals that are creamy yellow with a hint of pink, shading to light yellow apricot at inner petals.
Moon Dance
This elegant white lily blooms heavily all summer long until first frost. Its star-shaped petals stand about 4 inches above the water's surface, and its green leaves have light speckling.
Prakaisad
A medium sized waterlily with stellate, scrumptious, coral-peach to orange blooms and incredible, red, mottled pads.
Pin Waree
Pin Waree is a new profusely blooming waterlily from Thailand. Its light yellow blooms are star shaped with narrow petals, and they flower from early to late in the year. One of the best (and quite possibly the best) blooming hardy waterlilies of all time! Leave are attractively mottled with mahogany shades.
Pink Beauty
This free-flowering hardy waterlily has soft pink petals and golden yellow centers. Pink Beauty is a relatively low-maintenance plant that produces tons of flowers all season long, making it a great choice for first-time water gardeners. The blooms span about 4 to 6 inches across and float atop round green leaves.
Siam Sunset
The perfectly formed flowers are peach to apricot with dark gold. Bright yellow stamens and green pads make this hardy lily a standout.
Tropical Lilies
Teri Dunn
A viviparous tropical lily has dark green leaves and blue-violet flowers.
Texas Shell Pink
A night-blooming aquatic perennial boasting dark yellow-green leaves, up to 13 in. wide (32 cm), with serrated edges.
Queen of Siam
A day-blooming tropical lily, and has double, star-shaped, vibrant pink flowers, with notes of green in the outer petals.
Maroon Beauty
The 'Maroon Beauty' water lily is a night-blooming tropical lily, that has magnificent, star-shaped deep maroon blooms, of 8 to 10 inches, that are held above reddish-bronze lily pads. It is very free-flowering, has a spread of 4 to 6 feet, and is ideal for medium to large ponds.
Fox Fire
Foxfire is a tropical day-flowering waterlily that sometimes will not close completely at night due to the large size of the purple and pink blooms. The leaves can grow to 30 inches wide with up to a 15-foot spread.
Floating Aquatic Plants
Water Hyssop
Bacopa Monnieri
It has succulent leaves with entire margins arranged oppossitely on the stem. Flowers with 5 white to pale blue petals with 4 stamens in the center.
Sensitive Plant
Neptunia Aquatica
The fern-like leaves are produced along white spongy floating stems and close when slightly touched. Small tufted yellow flowers appear during the warm summer months.
Water Hyacinth
Eichhornia Crassipes
A floating plant that has clusters of leaves with spongy stalks arising from a base of dark purple feathery roots.
Rosetta Water Lettuce
Pitia Stratiotes
A freefloating, frost-tender aquatic perennial that is commonly used as an ornamental plant in water gardens. It produces rosettes (4-6” across) of wedge-shaped, overlapping, fluted, velvety, soft green leaves covered with water-repellant hairs.
Fuzzy Water Clover
Marsilea Drummondii
Marsilea drummondii is an aquatic perennial rhizomatous fern. It is highly polymorphic in many features. The sterile fronds are erect when growing in mud, floating when growing in water (Jones, 1998), each consisting of two pairs of leaflets arranged in a fourleaf-clover pattern.
Water Clover
Marsilea Mutica
Australian water clover is a perennial aquatic fern that has leaves dived into four lobes, looking like a clover. Leaves are two tone in color and tend to float on the surface of water
Mosaic Plant
Ludwigia Sediodes
An emergent aquatic perennial forming attractive rosettes of red and green diamond-shaped leaves, 3-6 in. wide (7-15 cm). Reminiscent of mosaics, they float on the water's surface, contracting at night and spreading out again during daylight hours.
Venezuelan Poppy
Hydrocleys Nymphoides
A selection of the species noted for larger leaves and flowers. Charming waterlily-like, stoloniferous perennial with tufts of thick shiny floating leaves and distinctive solitary lemon-yellow flowers with a red and brown center.
Water Poppy
Hydrocleys Nymphoides
An emergent aquatic perennial with thick, shiny, broadly heart-shaped, dark green leaves, 2-4 in. (5-10 cm), on trailing stems up to 3 ft. long (90 cm). They usually float on the water surface, but occasionally rise above.
Shallow Water
Orange Splash
Canna
A rhizomatous perennial with tropical-like foliage and large flowers that resemble that of iris.
Green Taro
Colocasia Esculenta
A tuberous, stemless, frost-tender perennial of the arum family (see also calla lily and jack-in-the-pulpit) which typically grows 3-6' tall and as wide.
Varigated Striped Rush
Baumea Rubiginosa
This tufted perennial sedge spreads from a short thick underground stem, forming dense swords of foliage and flowers from rigid upright stems. The flowerhead is upright and oblong in shape measuring 7-35 cm long.
Water Celery
Oenanthe Javanica
A perennial herb that grows to about 1 m in height, with fibrous roots that emerge from all nodes, and flowers with 5 white petals and 5 stamens.
Fiber Optics Rush
Scirpus Cernuus
A very attractive evergreen grass-like sedge relative that grows as a 12 to 18 inch wide tuft to 8 inches tall with bright green narrow thread-like leaves that arch over gracefully and are tipped with pale brown bracts and flowers in summer.
Compact Giant Papyrus
Cyperus Percamenthus
Also known as King Tut papyrus and Dwarf giant papyrus, it is an excellent tropical marginal plant.
Creeping Jenny
Lysmachia Nummilaria
It is a low-growing, creeping ground cover which might form leafy mat. Roots where leaf nodes come in contact with the soil. This cultivar features rounded, slightly ruffled, yellow leaves (to 3/4" diameter).
Golden Creeping Jenny
Lysmachia Nummilaria Aurea
It is a low-growing, creeping ground cover which might form leafy mat. Roots where leaf nodes come in contact with the soil. This cultivar features rounded, slightly ruffled, yellow leaves (to 3/4" diameter).
Contraband Girl
Iris Virginica
A light blue to deep violet, rarely white, flower. The sepals are spreading with darker blue to purple veins with a light yellow pubescent signal.
Iris Pseudata Roryu
Iris Pseudata Roryu, Pseudatas are stunning! Rich dusky blood red and purple flowers with golden eyes. Suitable for ponds, lakes, streams and bog-gardens in full sun. Height 90 cm
Iris Pseudata Chaki
Peachy rose blooms with a yellow eye, wine eyelashes and darker styles. Blooms early season. Can grow up to 38 inches tall.
Golden Japanese Flag
Acorus Gramineus
It is a semi-evergreen, marginal aquatic perennial that features a grass-like tuft of narrow, linear leaf blades (1/4“ wide) that fan outward to 6-12” tall.
Dwarf Redleaf
Alternanthera Reineckii
A very appealing long-stalked plant with the leaves which color varies from rose-red to dark violet.
Blue Bells
Ruellia Brittoniana
Ruellia brittoniana (Mexican Petunia) is a shrubby perennial boasting a profusion of petunia-like, vibrant lavender-blue flowers, 2 in. across (5 cm), from midsummer to fall. Borne solitary or in clusters at the tips of purplish stems, they rise above the foliage of lanceshaped, glossy green leaves.
Arrowhead
Sagittaria Latifolia
Sagittaria latifolia, commonly called arrowhead, duck potato or wapato, is a vigorous, deciduous, marginal aquatic perennial that typically grows 1-4' tall. It is noted for its arrowhead-shaped leaves and three-petaled white flowers in whorls of three
Golden Reed
Phragmites australis
A perennial reed that grows from elongated rhizomes or stolons; 1-6 meters tall, forms dense stands which include both live and standing dead stems from previous year's growth
Pickerel Rush
Pontederia Cordata
Pontederia cordata, commonly called pickerel weed, is a vigorous, deciduous, emergent marginal aquatic perennial that typically grows 2-4' tall. It is native to quiet waters at stream and pond margins from Nova Scotia south to Florida and Texas
Elk Blue Rush
Juncus Patens
An evergreen perennial plant that forms dense clumps of narrow, erect, gray-green to gray-blue, leafless stems. They are topped with subtle, inconspicuous golden-brown flower clusters from spring to fall.
Corkscrew Rush
Juncus Effusus Spiralis
Juncus effuses, commonly known as soft rush, common rush, bog rush or mat rush, is a grasslike-like, rhizomatous, wetland perennial that features smooth, upright, cylindrical, unjointed, spire-like green stems (leaves are absent) which grow in spreading basal clumps to 20-40” tall.
Pine Cone Flower
Anemopsis Californica
Anemopsis californica (Yerba Mansa) is a vigorously spreading, low-growing perennial boasting erect flower spikes in late spring and summer. Rising just above the foliage, each spike is topped with tiny, scented, white flowers clustered into a cone.
Dwarf Umbrella Palm
Cyperus Alternifolius
Cyperus alternifolius, commonly called umbrella plant or umbrella palm, is a perennial sedge that features a grass-like clump of triangular green stems typically growing to 2-3' tall. Each stem is topped by a whorl of 10-25 drooping leaf-like bracts that resemble the ribs of a raised umbrella.
Dwarf Papyrus
Cyperus Haspan
Tall, sharply 3-angled, soft and weak; leaf blades none, just sheaths; sheaths few, purplish, loose, at base; inflorescence branched, having few narrow leaf-like bracts; spikelets in long- and short-stalked clusters, linear, to 5/8 in. long; nutlet slightly 3-angled.
Star Grass
Dichromena Colorata
Star Grass (Dichromena Colorata) or White Star Sedge, is a member of the sedge family, native to the coasts of Virginia through Florida. Foliage consists of narrow blades of green, ornamental grass that is adorned with lovely, star shaped, white bracts, that appear as flowers atop the grass in summer until fall.
Parrot Feather
Myriophyllum Aquaticum
Myriophyllum aquaticum, commonly called parrot's feather or diamond milfoil, is a rhizomatous aquatic perennial that has both submerged and emergent feathery leaves that appear in whorls along the stems. Stems can grow to 6' long. Submerged foliage is chartreuse. Emergent foliage is dark blue green.
Water Mint
Mentha Aquatica
Mentha aquatica L. Identification: Water mint is an herbaceous rhizomatous perennial plant growing to 90 cm tall (Source: Wikipedia). The stems are square in cross section, green or purple, and variably hairy to almost hairless. The rhizomes are wide-spreading, fleshy, and bear fibrous roots