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
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Nymphaea odorata | American White Water-lily Fragrant White Water-lily Fragrant Water-lily White Water-lily Sweet-scented White Water-lily Sweet-scented Water-lily Beaver Root | |
Physostegia intermedia | Spring Obedient Plant Marsh Obedient Plant Slender False Dragonhead Intermediate False Dragonhead | |
Pluchea odorata var. odorata | Sweetscent Marsh Fleabane Southern Marsh Fleabane | |
Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Rush | |
Potamogeton diversifolius | Waterthread Pondweed Threadleaf Pondweed | |
Potamogeton nodosus | Longleaf Pondweed Knotty Pondweed | |
Rhynchospora corniculata | Shortbristle Horned Beaksedge Horned Beakrush | |
Rhynchospora colorata | Whitetop Sedge White-topped Sedge Starrush Whitetop Star Sedge Star Rush | |
Saururus cernuus | Lizard's Tail Lizard Tail Breastweed Water Dragon | |
Sagittaria platyphylla | Delta Arrowhead | |
Schoenoplectus americanus | Chairmaker's Bulrush Olney Three-square | |
Schoenoplectus californicus | California Bulrush California Club-rush Giant Bulrush | |
Thalia dealbata | Powdery Alligator-flag Powdery Thalia Water Canna | |
Vallisneria americana | American Eelgrass Water Celery Eelgrass Tapegrass | |
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