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Ramshorn snail
Some non-native pond
plants that should be left
well alone: (1,2,5) Floating
pennywort
Hydrocotyle
ranunculoides
; (3) Parrot’s
feather
Myriophyllum
aquaticum
; (4) New Zealand
pygmyweed or water
stonecrop
Crasulla helmsii
(often sold as
Tillaea
recurva
); (6) Water fern
Azolla filiculoides
; Nutall’s
and Canadian pondweed
Elodea spp.
; Curly
pondweed
Lagarosiphon
major
; Water primrose
Ludwigia grandiflora
.
Soft rush
Juncus effusus
Purple loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
Frogbit
Hydrocharis
morsus-ranae
Spiked water-milfoil
Myriophyllum spicatum
White waterlily
*
Nymphaea alba
other native
plants for
garden ponds
Deeper water (submerged
and oxygenating plants):
Common water-crowfoot
Ranunculus aquatilis
Curled pondweed
Potamogeton crispus
Water-starwort
Callitriche spp.
Water-violet
Hottonia palustris
Willow moss
Fontinalis antipyretica
Floating-leaved plants:
Broad-leaved pondweed
Potamogeton natans
Fringed waterlily
Nymphaea peltata
*
Yellow waterlily
Nuphar lutea
*
Marginal plants:
Amphibious bistort
Persicaria amphibia
Brooklime
Veronica beccabunga
Creeping Jenny
Lysimachia nummularia
Lesser pond sedge
Carex aucuparia
Lesser spearwort
Ranunculus flammula
Marsh-marigold
Caltha palustris
Rushes
Juncus spp.
Water forget-me-not
Myosotis scorpioides
Water plantain
Alisma plantago-aquatica
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