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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 |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Coastal Water-hyssop Herb-of-grace 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 burrhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword "Giant Mother Plant" | |
| Eleocharis quadrangulata | Squarestem spikerush | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Canuela Horsetail Scouring rush Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Fuirena simplex | Umbrellagrass Western umbrella-sedge | |
| Heteranthera dubia | Grassleaf mudplantain Water Stargrass | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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