floating pond plant
Water Snowflake (Nymphoides indicum variegata)
- Hardiness: Zones 8 – 11
- Height: 6″
- Flower: White frilly flowers
- Foliage: Small circular green or varigated pads float across the surface giving a look of miniature waterlilies
- Comments: A great surface marginal plant that spreads quickly
Water Clover (Marsilia Mutica)
- Hardiness: Zones 6-11
- Height: Leaves float on pond surface, spreads, and will grow in sun or shade
- Flower: none
- Foliage: Leaves resemble a four-leaf clover, and have reddish-brown stripes that splits the darker green on the top half of the leaflets and the lighter green of the lower half.
- Comments: Plant 4 inches to 9 inches below the surface of the water. It also will grow in damp soil. It is cold hardy but will not survive in temperatures below 10 degrees celcius.
- If crowded, it sends up aerial growth in addition to surface growth