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Water Plants Catalogue

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suitable for canberra

The following list of water plants includes those varieties that BruceWorks usually stock (with new stock generally arriving in spring). All have been selected for their hardiness in Canberra conditions.

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descriptions

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Water plant description
Amazon Queen Alocasia amazonia • Type: marginal - emergent • Prefers semi shade (frost tender) • Grows in wet or damp areas - may go dormant in winter • Yellow flowers in late summer

Bacopa Bacopa monniera (Australian native) Type: submerged - free floating • Tolerates full sun or part shade • Grow wet, damp or fully submerged • Small blue flowers from summer to autumn
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Blue Sedge Carex riparia Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow in pond - wet or damp position • Black flowers in summer

Duck Weed Lemna Species Type: free floating • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds in wet position • Forms a thick floating carpet over water

Dwarf Papyrus Cyperus prolifer Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade • Grow in ponds - wet or damp position

Dwarf Water Bamboo Phalaris arundinacea picta Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun (frost hardy) • Grow in wet or damp soil • Can grow to 1.5m but is kept smaller in pots

Fairy Fern Azolla Species Type: free floating • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds - forms a thick floating carpet • Good food source for some birds

Golden-eyed Grass Sisyrichium californicum Type: marginal • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow in a wet or damp position • Yellow flowers all year round

Green Goddess Zantedeschia aethiopica Type: marginal emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds or moist well drained soil • Large green/cream flowers all year round

Japanese Water Iris Iris laevigata Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow wet, damp or fully submerged • Flowers inspring/summer

Juncus Juncus Species Type: marginal - emergent (Australian native) • Grow in full sun (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds - wet or damp position

Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds - wet or damp position • Bright pink to red flowers in summer

Moses in a Basket Tradescantia X Andersoniana Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grows a wet or damp position • Flowers in summer

Nardoo Marsilea mutica (Australian native) Type: submerged - floating - marginal- emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds - wet or damp position

Papyrus Papyrus antiquarium Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost tender) • Grow in ponds - wet or damp position • Height to 3 metres

Pickerel Rush Pontederia cordata Type: marginal emergent • Will tolerate full sun or part shade • Grow in pond - wet or damp position • Stunning blue flowers in summer

Sarracenia Sarracenia Species Type: marginal • Tolerates full sun (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds - wet or damp position • Stunning flowers in spring/summer

Swamp Stonecrop Crassula helmsii Type: submerged - floating • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds, wet, damp or submerged • Tiny white flowers in summer

Sweet Flag Acorus gramineus Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds, wet or damp

Tall Spike Rush Eleocharis sphacelata (Australian native) Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds, wet or damp • Foliage provides excellent cover for waterfowl

Water Hawthorn Aponogeton distachyos Type: submerged - floating • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grows fully submerged • White perfumed flowers most of the year

Water Iris Iris ensata Type: marginal - emergent • Tolerates full sun or part shade (frost hardy) • Grows in ponds, wet or damp • Flowers in spring/summer

Water Lily Nymphaea Type: submerged - floating • Will tolerate full sun (frost hardy) • Grow in ponds • Produces flowers spring-autumn in full sun

Water Milfoil Myriophyllum papillosum Type: submerged - floating • Tolerates full sun or part shade • Grow wet, damp or fully submerged • Excellent for spawning and protection of goldfish

Water Plantain Alisma plantago aquatica Type: marginal - emergent • Will tolerate full sun or shade • Grows in ponds, wet or damp position • Dainty white flowers on tall spike in summer

Water Poppy Hydrocleys nymphoides Type: submerged - floating • Grows and flowers in full sun or shade • Grows in ponds • Yellow flowers in late summer

Water Ribbon Triglochin procera (Australian native) Type: submerged - floating • Tolerates full sun or shade • Grows in ponds - wet or damp position • Tall emergent green flowers in summer