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Dwarf Water Lily Coexistence Guides

Dwarf Water Lily 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
LightModerate
DifficultyBeginner
FlowLow (Still Water)
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Stargrass

Heteranthera zosterifolia

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Sweet Potato

Ipomoea batatas

Works with Planning
Other
Background
Attached to hardscape
BeginnerModerate

Mermaid Weed

Proserpinaca palustris

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateHigh

Purple Bacopa

Bacopa salzmannii

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateHigh

Taiwan Moss

Taxiphyllum alternans

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Attached to hardscape
Foreground
BeginnerLow

Water Onion

Crinum thaianum

Works with Planning
Bulb / Tuber Plant
Background
BeginnerModerate

Common Duckweed

Lemna minor

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerLow

Giant Duckweed

Spirodela polyrhiza

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerLow

Radican Sword

Echinodorus cordifolius

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Zipper Moss

Fissidens zippelianus

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Attached to hardscape
Foreground
IntermediateModerate

Dwarf Rotala

Rotala rotundifolia

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Guppy Grass

Najas guadalupensis

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Octopus Plant

Pogostemon stellatus

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Pinnatifida

Hygrophila pinnatifida

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Temple Plant

Hygrophila corymbosa

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
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

Bonsai Rotala

Rotala indica

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Foreground
Midground
IntermediateHigh

Gratiola

Limnophila hippuridoides

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Needle Leaf Ludwigia

Ludwigia arcuata

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateHigh

Undulata

Cryptocoryne undulata

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Carolina Fanwort

Cabomba caroliniana

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateHigh

Cylindric Ludwigia

Ludwigia glandulosa

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
AdvancedHigh

Dwarf Ambulia

Limnophila sessiliflora

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow