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Green Lily Coexistence Guides

Green 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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Radican Sword

Echinodorus cordifolius

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Water Spangles

Salvinia minima

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerLow

Christmas Moss

Vesicularia montagnei

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Attached to hardscape
Foreground
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

Pelia

Monosolenium tenerum

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Foreground
Midground
BeginnerLow

Stringy Moss

Leptodictyum riparium

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Attached to hardscape
Midground
BeginnerLow

Temple Plant

Hygrophila corymbosa

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Weeping Moss

Vesicularia ferriei

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Attached to hardscape
Foreground
BeginnerModerate

Beckett's Water Trumpet

Cryptocoryne beckettii

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Cryptocoryne Lutea

Cryptocoryne walkeri var. lutea

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Foreground
Midground
BeginnerLow

Long-leaf Aponogeton

Aponogeton longiplumulosus

Works with Planning
Bulb / Tuber Plant
Background
BeginnerModerate

Quillwort

Isoetes lacustris

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Foreground
Midground
IntermediateModerate

Ruffled Aponogeton

Aponogeton crispus

Works with Planning
Bulb / Tuber Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Shoreweed

Littorella uniflora

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Foreground
Carpeting
BeginnerModerate

Sprouting Hairgrass

Eleocharis vivipara

Works with Planning
Stolon / Runner Plant
Background
Midground
IntermediateModerate

Water Fern

Azolla filiculoides

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Water Orchid

Spiranthes odorata

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Watermeal

Wolffia arrhiza

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Wendtii Crypt

Cryptocoryne wendtii

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Foreground
Midground
BeginnerLow

Broad-leaved Crypt

Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Cylindric Ludwigia

Ludwigia glandulosa

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
AdvancedHigh

Red Ammannia

Ammannia pedicellata

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateHigh