Texas Native Pond Plants
Texas Native Pond Plants by Andrea DeLong-Amaya, Director of Horticulture, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. These plants are all native to the Texas region and are suitable for ponds and water gardens. If you live outside of Texas, these may or may not be native to your area.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
Canna glauca | Water Canna Louisiana Canna Maraca Amarilla | |
Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
Echinodorus berteroi | Upright Burrhead | |
Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
Eleocharis quadrangulata | Squarestem Spikerush | |
Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
Fuirena simplex | Western Umbrella-sedge Umbrellagrass Western Umbrella Sedge | |
Heteranthera dubia | Grassleaf Mudplantain Water Stargrass | |
Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf Rosemallow Halberdleaf Hibiscus Scarlet Rose Mallow Halberd-leaved Hibiscus Halberd-leaved Rose-mallow | |
Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
Hymenocallis liriosme | Texas Spiderlily Spring Spiderlily Spiderlily Louisiana Spiderlily Western Marsh Spiderlily | |
Hydrolea ovata | Blue Waterleaf Ovate False Fiddleleaf Hairy Hydrolea | |
Iris virginica | Virginia Iris Great Blue Flag Southern Blue Flag | |
Justicia americana | American Water-willow Water-willow | |
Juncus effusus var. solutus | Lamp Rush Soft Rush | |
Kosteletzkya virginica | Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow Virginia Fen-rose Saltmarsh Mallow Seashore Mallow | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
Ludwigia peploides | Floating Primrose-willow Water-primrose Creeping Water-primrose | |
Marsilea macropoda | Bigfoot Water-clover Water-clover Clover-fern Largefoot Pepperwort | |
Najas guadalupensis | Common Water Nymph Southern Water Nymph Najas | |
Nelumbo lutea | American Lotus Yellow Water Lotus Yellow Lotus | |
Nuphar lutea | Yellow Pond Lily Yellow Cow Lily Cow Lily Spatter Dock Wakas | |
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