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Carolina Fanwort Coexistence Guides

Carolina Fanwort 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
LightHigh
DifficultyIntermediate
FlowLow (Still Water)
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Green Cabomba

Cabomba aquatica

Grows Well Together
Stem Plant
Background
AdvancedHigh

Water Hyacinth

Eichhornia crassipes

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerHigh

Carolina Mosquito Fern

Azolla caroliniana

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Giant Salvinia

Salvinia molesta

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Parrot's Feather

Myriophyllum aquaticum

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Glosso

Glossostigma elatinoides

Works with Planning
Stolon / Runner Plant
Foreground
Carpeting
AdvancedHigh

Amazon Frogbit

Limnobium laevigatum

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Asian Watergrass

Hygroryza aristata

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Asian Watermoss

Salvinia cucullata

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Dwarf Chain Sword

Helanthium tenellum

Works with Planning
Stolon / Runner Plant
Foreground
Carpeting
BeginnerModerate

Dwarf Crypt

Cryptocoryne parva

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Foreground
Carpeting
BeginnerModerate

Floating Fern

Salvinia natans

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Floating Water Sprite

Ceratopteris cornuta

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Red Root Floater

Phyllanthus fluitans

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Water Cabbage

Pistia stratiotes

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Water Fern

Azolla filiculoides

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Watermeal

Wolffia arrhiza

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Dwarf Rotala

Rotala rotundifolia

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Japanese Cress

Cardamine lyrata

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Pearl Weed

Hemianthus micranthemoides

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Foreground
Carpeting
BeginnerModerate

Bog Moss

Mayaca fluviatilis

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateHigh

Giant Baby Tears

Micranthemum umbrosum

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateHigh

Mosaic Plant

Ludwigia sedioides

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Background
AdvancedHigh

Monte Carlo

Micranthemum tweediei

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Foreground
Carpeting
IntermediateModerate