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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 | |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf rosemallow Halberdleaf hibiscus Scarlet rose mallow | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimsoneyed rosemallow Crimson-eyed rose-mallow Marshmallow hibiscus | |
| Hymenocallis liriosme | Spider Lily Spring Spider Lily Spring spiderlily | |
| Hydrolea ovata | Blue Water Leaf Hairy Hydrolea Ovate false fiddleleaf | |
| Iris virginica | Virginia iris Great 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 Seashore mallow Salt Marsh-mallow | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
| Ludwigia peploides | Creeping water-primrose Floating primrose-willow Water-primrose | |
| Marsilea macropoda | Bigfoot water clover Water clover Clover-fern | |
| Najas guadalupensis | Common Water Nymph Najas Southern waternymph | |
| Nelumbo lutea | American lotus Yellow water lotus Yellow lotus | |
| Nuphar lutea | Yellow pond-lily Cow lily Spatter dock Yellow cow lily | |
| Nymphaea odorata | American white waterlily American white water-lily Fragrant white water lily White water lily Fragrant water lily White water lily | |
| Physostegia intermedia | Intermediate false dragonhead Marsh obedient-plant Obedient-plant Slender false dragonhead Spring obedient plant | |
| Pluchea odorata var. odorata | Marsh Fleabane Sweetscent | |
| Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Weed | |
| Potamogeton diversifolius | Threadleaf Pondweed Waterthread pondweed | |
| Potamogeton nodosus | Knotty Pondweed Longleaf pondweed | |
| Rhynchospora corniculata | Shortbristle horned beaksedge Horned Beakrush | |
| Rhynchospora colorata | Starrush whitetop Star sedge White-topped sedge Whitetop sedge | |
| Saururus cernuus | Lizard's tail Lizard's-tail Breast weed | |
| 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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