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