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Water Spangles Coexistence Guides

Water Spangles 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
LightLow
DifficultyBeginner
FlowLow (Still Water)
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Stringy Moss

Leptodictyum riparium

Grows Well Together
Moss / Liverwort
Attached to hardscape
Midground
BeginnerLow

Common Duckweed

Lemna minor

Grows Well Together
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerLow

Giant Duckweed

Spirodela polyrhiza

Grows Well Together
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerLow

Amazon Frogbit

Limnobium laevigatum

Grows Well Together
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Asian Watergrass

Hygroryza aristata

Grows Well Together
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Asian Watermoss

Salvinia cucullata

Grows Well Together
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Floating Fern

Salvinia natans

Grows Well Together
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Red Root Floater

Phyllanthus fluitans

Grows Well Together
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Broad-leaved Crypt

Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia

Grows Well Together
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Süßwassertang

Lomariopsis lineata

Grows Well Together
Moss / Liverwort
Foreground
Midground
BeginnerLow

Pelia

Monosolenium tenerum

Grows Well Together
Moss / Liverwort
Foreground
Midground
BeginnerLow

Carolina Mosquito Fern

Azolla caroliniana

Grows Well Together
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Crystalwort

Riccia fluitans

Grows Well Together
Moss / Liverwort
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Dwarf Sagittaria

Sagittaria subulata

Grows Well Together
Stolon / Runner Plant
Foreground
Carpeting
BeginnerLow

Giant Salvinia

Salvinia molesta

Grows Well Together
Floating Plant
Floating
BeginnerModerate

Italian Val

Vallisneria spiralis

Grows Well Together
Stolon / Runner Plant
Background
BeginnerLow

Jungle Val

Vallisneria americana

Grows Well Together
Stolon / Runner Plant
Background
BeginnerLow

Sweet Potato

Ipomoea batatas

Grows Well Together
Other
Background
Attached to hardscape
BeginnerModerate

Dwarf Ambulia

Limnophila sessiliflora

Grows Well Together
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Dwarf Hygro

Hygrophila polysperma

Grows Well Together
Stem Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow

Lucky Bamboo

Dracaena sanderiana

Grows Well Together
Other
Background
BeginnerLow

Banana Plant

Nymphoides aquatica

Grows Well Together
Bulb / Tuber Plant
Foreground
Midground
BeginnerModerate

Pothos

Epipremnum aureum

Grows Well Together
Other
Attached to hardscape
Background
BeginnerLow

Beckett's Water Trumpet

Cryptocoryne beckettii

Grows Well Together
Rosette / Crown Plant
Midground
Background
BeginnerLow