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Broadleaf Sword Coexistence Guides

Broadleaf Sword is most often used midground and background, so these coexistence guides focus on other plants that can share that space and care envelope without turning the scape into a maintenance fight.

PlacementMidground
LightLow
DifficultyBeginner
FlowModerate (Standard)
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Lucky Bamboo

Dracaena sanderiana

Works with Planning
Other
Background
BeginnerLow

Melon Sword

Echinodorus osiris

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Afzel's Anubias

Anubias afzelii

Works with Planning
Rhizome / Epiphyte Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Anubias Barteri

Anubias barteri

Works with Planning
Rhizome / Epiphyte Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Congo Anubias

Anubias heterophylla

Works with Planning
Rhizome / Epiphyte Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Dwarf Crypt

Cryptocoryne parva

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Foreground
Carpeting
BeginnerModerate

Gillet's Anubias

Anubias gilletii

Works with Planning
Rhizome / Epiphyte Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Java Fern

Leptochilus pteropus

Works with Planning
Rhizome / Epiphyte Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Slender Anubias

Anubias gracilis

Works with Planning
Rhizome / Epiphyte Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Spade-leaf Anubias

Anubias hastifolia

Works with Planning
Rhizome / Epiphyte Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Willow Moss

Fontinalis antipyretica

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Attached to hardscape
Midground
BeginnerLow

Zippel's Fern

Microsorum zippelii

Works with Planning
Rhizome / Epiphyte Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Lemon Bacopa

Bacopa caroliniana

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Spadeleaf Plant

Gymnocoronis spilanthoides

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Background
BeginnerModerate

African Onion Plant

Crinum calamistratum

Works with Planning
Bulb / Tuber Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Balansae

Cryptocoryne crispatula

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Background
Midground
BeginnerModerate

Common Duckweed

Lemna minor

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerLow

Crystalwort

Riccia fluitans

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Giant Duckweed

Spirodela polyrhiza

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerLow

Gratiola

Limnophila hippuridoides

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Long-leaf Aponogeton

Aponogeton longiplumulosus

Works with Planning
Bulb / Tuber Plant
Background
BeginnerModerate

Mint Charlie

Clinopodium brownei

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Quillwort

Isoetes lacustris

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Foreground
Midground
IntermediateModerate

Süßwassertang

Lomariopsis lineata

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Foreground
Midground
BeginnerLow