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Alphabetical List Of Reliable Plants |
Sonchus palustris is the Marsh Sow Thistle. It is ideal for
the bank of a stream. It has dandelion-like flowers and long
narrow leaves on stems five feet or more in height.
Sparganium ramosum is an aquatic plant not unlike an iris.
excepting that it produces heads of green flowers on branching
three- to five-foot stems.
Stachys palustris is the Woundwort growing two or three
feet high with narrow crenate leaves and purple flowers.
Thalia dealbata has palm-like foliage up to five feet high and
erect panicles of small purplish flowers. The leaves have a
glaucous appearance.
Typha is well known as the Reed Mace having grass-like
foliage and six- to twelve-inch flower spikes.
T. japonica has handsome glaucous leaves and cat's tail-like
flower spikes and there are many other good species.
Villarsia is a genus of plants closely related to Menyanthes
and is not fully hardy.
Xanthosoma violaceum is a beautiful plant for the shallow
indoor water garden. It has reddish stems, dark green leaves
and golden flowers.
Zantedeschia often known as Calla are not reliably hardy
but Z. aethiopica, white, can be grown outside in summer or
planted eight or nine inches deep in order to escape frost
damage.
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