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Potamogetonaceae
Shining pondweed
Potamogeton lucens
Also known as Potamogeton lucens var. rotundifolius, Potamogeton lucens f. insignis, Potamogeton lucens subsp. zizii, Potamogeton lucens subvar. insignis
Native Plants · Aquatic · Submerged · Pond Plant · Oxygenator · Water Garden · Freshwater · Wildlife Habitat · Perennial · Pondweed · Waterfowl
Shining pondweed is a fully submerged aquatic perennial best suited to ponds, water gardens, or aquarium-style outdoor features with clean, nutrient-rich water. It requires stable water quality, moderate light, and a loamy substrate to anchor its roots — it will not survive outside of an aquatic environment. This plant is an excellent oxygenator and provides valuable habitat and food for fish and waterfowl.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Must remain fully submerged in clean, still to slow-moving freshwater at all times · Submerged — permanently aquatic
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 7–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 24 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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