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Water Cabbage Coexistence Guides

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

PlacementFloating
LightModerate
DifficultyBeginner
FlowLow (Still Water)
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Baby Tears

Lindernia rotundifolia

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Creeping Jenny

Lysimachia nummularia

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Creeping Ludwigia

Ludwigia repens

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Mosaic Plant

Ludwigia sedioides

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Background
AdvancedHigh

Amazon Sword

Echinodorus amazonicus

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Broad-leaved Crypt

Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Orchid Lily

Barclaya longifolia

Works with Planning
Bulb / Tuber Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Uruguay Sword

Echinodorus uruguayensis

Works with Planning
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Waterweed

Elodea canadensis

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

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

Gratiola

Limnophila hippuridoides

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Long-leaf Aponogeton

Aponogeton longiplumulosus

Works with Planning
Bulb / Tuber Plant
Background
BeginnerModerate

Meebold's Lagenandra

Lagenandra meeboldii

Works with Planning
Rhizome / Epiphyte Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Mint Charlie

Clinopodium brownei

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Ruffled Aponogeton

Aponogeton crispus

Works with Planning
Bulb / Tuber Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Sprouting Hairgrass

Eleocharis vivipara

Works with Planning
Stolon / Runner Plant
Background
Midground
IntermediateModerate

Süßwassertang

Lomariopsis lineata

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Foreground
Midground
BeginnerLow

Vesuvius Sword

Helanthium bolivianum

Works with Planning
Stolon / Runner Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate

Water Hyacinth

Eichhornia crassipes

Works with Planning
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerHigh

Water Primrose

Ludwigia palustris

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerModerate

Christmas Moss

Vesicularia montagnei

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Attached to hardscape
Foreground
BeginnerModerate

Pelia

Monosolenium tenerum

Works with Planning
Moss / Liverwort
Foreground
Midground
BeginnerLow

Pinnatifida

Hygrophila pinnatifida

Works with Planning
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
IntermediateModerate