Lilies

Tropical Lily Antares
Antares is one of the deepest reds found within the tropical night blooming water lilies.

Green Smoke Water lily
The 'Green Smoke' tropical water lily has uniquely colored petals.

Lily-Like

Variegated Water Snowflake
Although this plant is only hardy to zone 8, it is a must have for your pond. The leaves are reddish-brown and green and float lily-like.

Water Poppy
Water poppy is a tropical 'lily-like' aquatic plant, great for use in a small ponds as well as container gardens.

Floating Heart
The genera Nymphoides is among the more interesting and decorative group of plants in the aquatic gardening hobby

Little Floating Heart
The small white flowers have five petals and emerge from the stem below the floating leaf on slender stalks

Yellow Floating Heart
Yellow floating heart is a native of Eurasia and the Mediterranean area

Crested Floating Heart
This exotic lily-like aquatic is native to China and Asia

Miscellaneous

Bloody Dock
Bloody dock is considered a perennial herb/ornamental vegetable with a woody rootstock

Creeping Jenny
The Moneywort is far more often known by the familiar names of Creeping Jenny, Wandering Jenny, Running Jenny, Creeping Joan and Wandering Sailor , all names alluding to its rapid trailing over the ground

Impatiens
One of the most popular of annuals is the Impatiens. It suits so many purposes and provides so much color for extended periods

Chocolate Mint
Herbs in the water garden - Yes, this is a perfect example of a perennial herb you may already have growing in your garden that will love a place in your pond

Primrose Creeper
Primrose creeper is a good pond cover, creating a nice visual effect as it floats out over the water.

Watercress
Watercress is a perennial plant grown for the pungent leaves and young stems that are widely used for garnishing and in salads.

White Clover
Ornamental clovers are ground-hugging gems with very ornamental leaves, in shades of green, cream and red.

Buttercups
Commonly known as Buttercups these plants were originally found in northern England.... These plants are suitable for borders, wildflower gardens, streambeds and watersides.

Mexican Petunia
Mexican petunia has attractive dark-green foliage on fleshy stems. Showy petunia-like flowers appear throughout the growing season.

Society Garlic
Society garlic is a clump-forming herbaceous perennial with narrow, grayish green leaves and large clusters of lavender or lilac flowers.

Bald Cypress
Bald Cypress make a very good bonsai plant and do very well in Minnesota.

Blue Sedge
This cool season tough sedge can grow in very diverse habitats.

Fiber Optic Grass
This grass is perfect for containers, borders, flower beds, or the edge of the water garden

Jewel Weed
This native plant is a summer annual that typically blooms late in the season

Turtlehead
Turtleheads are sturdy, easy to take care of and a lovely addition to a pond's edge.

Northern Sea Oats
This warm-season clump-forming, upright, ornamental grass typically grows 2-5-feet and most often occurs in woods or rocky slopes along streams and on moist bluffs.

Creeping Speedwell
This variegated ground cover, Veronica, is ideal for containers as well as the sunny garden

Gay Flower
Gay Feather, or Blazing Star is a clump-forming native perennial, that grows best in poor soils.

Windflower
Japan anemone is a great plant for late season bloom in your garden

Marsh Skullcap
Marsh Skullcap is a native plant hardy to zone 3 likes wet feet.

Bog Plants

Cardinal Flower
Cardinal Flower, a member of the bellflower family, it grows best in moist, even wet, soil in full or partial sun and will thrive along the margins of a garden pool.

Marsh cinquefoil
Marsh cinquefoil is a native perennial that grows in bogs, conifer swamps and prefers acidic to neutral marshes.

Marsh Marigold
The Marsh Marigold, sometimes called cowslip, is a dark-green plant resembling a gigantic buttercup

Lemon Bacopa
A tropical bog plant hardy in zones 8-11. It is fast growing and gets its name from the intense lemon scented foliage reminiscent of eucalyptus.

Sensitive Plant
As the common name suggests, the leaves, like the land based 'sensitive plant', close when they are touched

Joe Pye Weed
Joe Pye weed, Eupatorium purpureum, is a North American native found in moist woods and meadows from southern Canada to Florida and west to Texas.

Swamp Buttercup
This zone 3 native perennial plant is about 6-inches tall, producing basal leaves and stems with alternate leaves that sprawl along the ground

Golden Reed
This reed, is a perennial grass, which grows in marshes and swamps, along streams, lakes, ponds, ditches, and wet wastelands in many states in the US

Yerba Mansa
This is a marsh and creekside plant, that grows about 18-inches tall, with waxy green leaves

Marginals

American Brooklime
It grows abundantly in shallow streams, ditches, and the margins of ponds, flourishing in the same situations as Water Cress and Water Mint.

Water Celery
Water Celery or Water Parsley is a very hardy plant. It will thrive in soil, as well as growing in pea rock

Delta Arrowhead
A member of the water-plantain family. There are many types of arrowheads. This variety grows wild in spring fed rivers which don't dry up every summer, in southern states.

Water forget-me-not
Water forget-me-nots, used as a marginal plant, provide clusters of small pretty blue flowers with yellow centers that stand above the bright green foliage.

Cattails
Cattails are probably the most familiar of all wetland plants, often growing in just about any place where there is shallow, standing water for at least part of the year, and can grow to almost 9 feet in height

Chameleon Plant
Houttuynia is named after Martin Houttuyn, an 18th century Dutch naturalist, and cordata translates as 'heart shaped', and refers to the cordate shape of the leaf base

Umbrella Palm
Related to the Sedge family, cyperuses are tropical water plants grown for their interesting fronds which grow atop trangular stems, and resemble 'umbrellas'

Golden Club
Golden club is an unusual and attractive member of the of the arum family, related to jack-in-the-pulpit, skunk cabbage, and garden calla lily

Iris
Irises are some of the most popular of bog plants. The foliage is attractive makes a good backdrop or as a companion to some of the other plants in the bog.

Loosestrife
Getting its name from the 'hairs' that form the fringe along its stem, it is an elegant loosestrife which is ideal for the border, bog garden or pond margin

Horsetail Rush
There are roughly 30 species of Equisetum but only a few are truly aquatic. You can identify this plant by the upright, hollow, jointed cylindrical stems, which have ashy grey bands at the joints

Water Zinnia
This plant is a great choice for marginal as well as bog planting. It provides attractive foliage through the spring and summer and it blooms profusely in the late summer

Lizards Tail
Lizard's-tail has a bottlebrush spike of white flowers, typically six to eight inches long but can be longer.

Sweet Flag
Sweet Flag gets its name from its aromatic foliage which resembles citrus.

Variegated Water Grass
A colorful, early emerging grass, up to 3 feet tall, accented by creamy white stripes tinged in pink in the spring

Swamp Rose
A multi-stemmed perennial up to 7 feet tall. The flowers of the species are up to 6 inches across, but some of the hybrids produce flowers up to 12 inches across in maturity.

Spiderwort
Spiderworts are one of the native wildflowers that have made their way into the nursery trade.

Monkey Flower
Allegheny monkey flower - also commonly called square-stemmed monkey flower - is a native, upright perennial which typically is seen in swampy areas, wet meadows, ponds and stream banks throughout many states.

Spike Rush
Spike rush is found throughout the united states, in wet prairies, roadside ditches, fens, ponds and waterways.

Water Hawthorn
This deep-water marginal is native to South Africa and will grow in water 6 inches to 2 feet deep.

Water Fern
Floating water clover, commonly known as Pepperwort has shiny, waxy looking leaves that resemble four-leaf clovers.

Parrot's Feather
Parrot's feather, a member of the water-milfoil family - Halo-ragaceae

Water calla
Native to southern Africa. The water calla grows naturally in marshy areas

Zebra Rush
Rushes are excellent plants for ponds or natural streams and wetlands

Japanese Iris
Japanese Irises have the largest flower of the iris family.

Dwarf Water Bamboo
It is not a true bamboo but a sedge. Use this marginal plant to accent your water garden, and add texture.

Arrowhead 'Silk Stockings'
The plant has arrow-shaped foliage, with a purplish coloration to the net-like pattern on the foliage.

Blue Flag Iris
This native perennial plant is hardy to zone 2. The Blue Flag Iris is found in wet meadows and wood edges.

Water Canna
Thalia dealbata is a tall-growing pond marginal, with huge canna-like leaves growing to 48 to 60-inches

Floaters

Water Lettuce
Water Lettuce is a floating plant with thick, fleshy, light green ribbed leaves that form a rosette that looks like a small head of lettuce.

Fairy Moss
This is an aquatic plant native to Florida but is used as a floating aquatic plant in many water gardens

American Frog-bit
The American Frog-bit produces small, glossy green, heart-shaped, floating leaves that have a spongy underside tinged with purple.

Water Hyacinth
Water hyacinths are a free-floating, frost-tender aquatic perennial that is commonly used as an ornamental plant in water gardens.

Common Salvinia
Common Salvinia are small aquatic ferns native to Mexico and South America

Submerged

Hornwort
This dark green plant is a free-floating plant and is found in moving and still waters, or loosely anchored in muddy bottoms in many lakes and ponds.

American waterweed
American waterweed - Elodea canadensis - is what many people commonly think of as 'that aquarium plant'