1. Home
  2. Question and Answer
  3. Houseplants
  4. Garden Articles
  5. Most Popular Plants
  6. Plant Nutrition

Flowering Aquatic Plants for Shady Ponds: Lilies, Marginals, and Floaters

Shade-Tolerant Water Lilies

Hardy: Comanche, Indiana, Attraction, James Brydon, Texas Dawn, Virginia, Charlene Strawn. Tropical: Panama Pacific, Tina, August Koch, Director Moore, Shirley Bryne. They may flower less but foliage thrives.

Marginals for Shade

Variegated sweet flag, taros (Imperial, Plumbae, Black Magic), umbrella palm, chameleon plant, water pennywort, aquatic morning glory, Louisiana iris, yellow flag, corkscrew rush, cardinal flower, aquatic mint, parrot's feather, sensitive plant, golden club, arrow arum, pickerel rush, lizard's tail, crushed ice.

Floating and Lily-Like Plants

Fairy moss, frogbit, water lettuce, water hawthorne (spring/fall bloom), four-leaf clover.

Design Tip

Focus on foliage texture and color; flowers are a bonus in shade.

Copyright © www.100flowers.win Botanic Garden All Rights Reserved