Accessory Aquatic Plants
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Submerged aquatic plants
Floating Aquatics Plants
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Bog Plants
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GHEEN TAHO
-(C. indica). Only 1½ to 2 feet high with dark-green, shiny foliage. One of the strongest-growing forms.
IMPERIAL TARO
- (C. antiquorum illustris). Sometimes called Black Caladium. Grows 3 to 4 feet with foliage of bluish-green, splotched violet-black in an artistic pattern.
VIOLET-STEM TARO
- (C. multiflora). Grows 2 to 4 feet with large, bluish-green leaves in pretty contrast to violet stems, midribs, and veins. Leaf edges are stained an attractive lavender.
TURTLE-HEAD
-(Chelone). A hardy perennial herb which grows wild to 2 to 6 feet in wet meadows, swamps, along the edges of rivers, and in roadside ditches throughout most of eastern North America. The narrow, toothed leaves are spear-shaped and the bloom does look like the head of a turtle, With mouth open and ready for business. Flowers appear in midsummer and continue until frost. This propagates readily by seed, root division, and cuttings.
glabra-Also called Cod-Head, Snake-Head. A smaller form with white or pale-pink blooms.
Lyonii-A taller species, With dense, heart-shaped leaves and reddish purple blooms.
glabra-Also called Cod-Head, Snake-Head. A smaller form with white or pale-pink blooms.
Lyonii-A taller species, With dense, heart-shaped leaves and reddish purple blooms.
obliqua-Also called Red Turtle-Head. Similar in form to the C. glabra, but with reddish-purple flowers. Earliest blooming of the group.
UMBRELLA-PALM
-(Cyperus alternifolius). Also called Umbrella Plant. An attractive sedge, 1 to 3 feet high, with fat, grassy, umbrella like leaf heads borne at the end of slender stems. Like the Egyptian Paper Plant, to which it is related, this spreads by seed, root division, and from young plants which form at the ends of the grasslike leaves. Grows well in a bog or in 2 to 3 inches of water. Transferred to a jardiniere of moist soil, which must be kept that way, it makes a splendid house plant.
WATER-ARUM
-(Calla palustris). Also Wild Calla or Bog-Arum. A modified version of the calla lily, growing to about a foot. Does well with roots in mud slightly above or below water level. This is a perennial that need never be moved in milder climates. Where there are killing frosts, rootstocks must be taken indoors for the winter. The first year the plant bears a profusion of small, shiny, heart-shaped leaves; the second it develops creamy-white blooms of classical lily form-a trumpetlike spathe, or sheath, surrounding a yellow spadix, or flower spike. The spadix becomes a cluster of red berries in autumn.