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Aquatic Plants for Ponds in Southern California

Full Sun – Extreme Dry Heat

For very dry heat areas such as most of Riverside or cities with similar weather, you need plants that can withstand not only HEAT, but low humidity and wind.

NOTE: If you have trees surrounding and shading your pond, you can get away with planting full-sun “Tropical Plants”.

Water Lilies

  • Tropical Water Lilies (Robust Bloomers Spring-Fall) – Flowering

  • Hardy Water Lilies (Hardier Lilies Blooms Spring-Fall) – Flowering

Tall Height Marginals

  • Cattails (Dwarf and Giant Typha laxmannii) – Non-Flowering

  • Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia) – Non-Flowering 

  • Giant Papyrus (Cyperus giganteus) – Non-Flowering

  • Dwarf Papyrus (Cyperus giganteus ) – Non-Flowering

  • Horsetail (Equisetum hymale) – Non-Flowering

  • Dwarf Umbrella Palm (Cyperus alternifolius ‘Gracilis’) – Non-Flowering

  • Hardy Water Canna (Thalia dealbata) – Flowering

  • Iris (Iris virginica) – Flowering

  • Blue Bells / Mexican Petunia (Ruellia brittoniana) – Flowering

  • Pickerel Rush (Pontederia cordata) – Flowering

Medium Height Marginals

  • Sweet Flag Grass (Acorus calamus) – Non-Flowering 

  • Rush Grasses Varieties – Blue, Corkscrew, Afro (Juncus) – Non-Flowering 

  • Variegated Water Celery (Oenanthe javanica) – Rarely-Flowering

  • Water Pennywort (Hydrocotyle verticillata) – Non-Flowering 

  • Parrot’s Feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) – Non-Flowering

Short – Ground Cover Marginals

  • Brass Buttons (Cotula coronopifolia) – Flowering

  • Memory Herb (Bacopa monnieri) – Flowering

Floating and Lily-Like Plants

  • Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes ‘Rosetta’)  – Non-Flowering

  • Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) – Flowering

  • Water Poppy, Water Snowflake, Floating Heart (Nymphoides family) – Flowering

  • Mosaic Plant (Ludwigia sedioides) – Non-Flowering

  • Variegated Water Clover(Marsilea mutica) with floating leaves – Non-Flowering

Full Sun – Tropical Heat

Water Lilies

  • Tropical Water Lilies (Robust Bloomers Spring-Fall) – Flowering

  • Hardy Water Lilies (Hardier Lilies Blooms Spring-Fall) – Flowering

Tall Height Marginals

  • Cattails (Dwarf and Giant Typha laxmannii) – Non-Flowering

  • Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia) – Non-Flowering 

  • Redstem Thalia (Thalia geniculata ruminoides) – Non-Flowering

  • Giant Papyrus (Cyperus giganteus) – Non-Flowering

  • Dwarf Papyrus (Cyperus giganteus ) – Non-Flowering

  • Horsetail (Equisetum hymale) – Non-Flowering

  • Dwarf Umbrella Palm (Cyperus alternifolius ‘Gracilis’) – Non-Flowering

  • Hardy Water Canna (Thalia dealbata) – Flowering

  • Iris (Iris virginica) – Flowering

  • Blue Bells / Mexican Petunia (Ruellia brittoniana) – Flowering

  • Pickerel Rush (Pontederia cordata) – Flowering

  • Red Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) – Flowering

  • Water Hibiscus (Hibiscus coccineus) – Flowering

  • Canna (Canna indica) – Flowering

Medium Height Marginals

  • Sweet Flag Grass (Acorus calamus) – Non-Flowering 

  • Rush Grasses Varieties – Blue, Corkscrew, Afro (Juncus) – Non-Flowering 

  • Variegated Water Celery (Oenanthe javanica) – Rarely-Flowering 

  • Parrot’s Feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) – Non-Flowering

  • Dwarf Redleaf (Alternanthera reineckii) – Non-Flowering

  • Water Pennywort (Hydrocotyle verticillata) – Non-Flowering

  • Calla Lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica) – Flowering

Short – Ground Cover Marginals

  • Moss – Scotch and Irish – Non-Flowering

  • Creeping Jenny – Dark Green, Golden (Lysmachia nummilaria) – Flowering

  • Blue Moneywort (Lindernia grandiflora) – Flowering

  • Brass Buttons (Cotula coronopifolia) – Flowering

  • Memory Herb (Bacopa monnieri) – Flowering

  • Primrose Creeper (Ludwigia peploides) – Flowering

Floating and Lily-Like Plants

  • Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes ‘Rosetta’) – Non-Flowering

  • Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) – Flowering

  • Water Poppy, Water Snowflake, Floating Heart (Nymphoides family) – Flowering

  • Mosaic Plant (Ludwigia sedioides) – Non-Flowering

  • Variegated Water Clover(Marsilea mutica) with floating leaves – Non-Flowering