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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 |
| 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 | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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