pond plant

Duck potato Sagittaria latifolia botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing underwater “potato” growths

Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus or Lotus uliginosus with calyx detail

Fool’s water-cress Apium nodiflorum with seed and flower detail

Water fern Azolla filiculoides shown floating with water repelling properties

Gypsywort Lycopus europaeus with detail of flower calyx and seed

Water forget-me-not Myosotis scorpiodes showing growth habit

Water figwort Scrophularia auriculata with detail of flower stem and seed

Water-violet Hottonia palustris showing submerged leaves

Water-pepper Persicaria hydropiper or Polygonum hydropiper

Amphibious bistort Polygonum amphibium floating form in flower

Brooklime Veronica beccabunga in flower showing red stem

Celery-leaved buttercup Ranunculus sceleratus showing whole plant and roots

Common butter-bur Petasites hybridus with male flowers inflorescence

Common duckweed Lemna minor showing plant growing and close up of flower

Great yellow-cress Rorippa amphibia with detail of seed and flower

Ivy-leaved water crowfoot Ranunculus hederaceus showing sprawling habit

Water soldier Stratiotes aloides showing emergent leaves

Skullcap Scutellaria galericulata showing distinctive blue flowers

Water primrose Ludwigia grandiflora showing submerged and emergent leaves.  For FSC.

Branched Bur-reed Sparganium erectum showing rhizomes, and plant with flowers and fruit.  Illustration also shows details of an individual fruit, and of a female and male flower.  

Arrowhead Sagittaria sagitarria showing underwater ribbon-like leaves and floating oval leaves.  Emergent leaves are arrow-shaped.  Illustration also shows flowers and fruit.

Broad-leaved Pondweed Potamogeton natans with detail of fruiting spike, one seed, and one flower.

Frog’s-bit Hydrocharis morsus-ranae showing plant with female flowers on the left, and one with male flowers on the right.  Illustration shows rhizomes as well as floating orbicular leaves and flowers.

Water horsetail showing two sterile stems and two fertile stems, one with leaves and one without.  Also showing cross section of the stem, and the rhizome.