Pickerel Rush (Pontederia Cordata)
Blooms early summer into fall!
Blue Pickerel Rush (Pontederia Cordata) A lovely, green, pond plant with large, lush, green leaves and small blue-purple flower spikes. Flower spikes bloom above the dark, glossy, green foliage nonstop all summer long into October. A lovely addition to your pond when grown in containers or at the edges of natural ponds and lakes. Grows 2 - 3 feet tall. This plant can handle moist soil to water as deep as 8 inches for mature plants. Pickerel Rush brings butterflies and hummingbirds to your water garden.
*Pontederia cordata is also known as pickerel weed or pickerelweed
Height Grows 2 - 3 feet tall
Width 14 - 24 inch spread
Sunlight Requirements Full sun to full shade
Moisture Needs Wet, up to 8 inches of water above roots for mature plants
Bloom Blue-purple spikes of flowers above foliage all summer long
Zone Hardy in zones 3 - 10
Plant Pontederia Cordata in moist, loam soil with up to 4 - 10 inches of water over the soil. Pickerel Rush is a great pond plant that does best in full sun to full shade. Plant in a 12 inches wide container about 12 inches deep, or larger, using heavy loam soil and place in your pond with up to 10 inches of water above the roots. Beautiful when naturalized on the banks of ponds and lakes. When planting in containers, keep roots from freezing. Hardy in zones 3 - 10
