Below is a list of plants of plants we recommend for landscaping and restoration projects in and around the Pensacola area under aquatic conditions. Many of these plants are sold by native plant nurseries, local nurseries, and from other plant vendors. Still others may be acquired from members or collected ethically with a land owner’s permission.
We recommend supporting a plant vendor within the Florida Association of Native Plant Nurseries (FANN) but other nurseries also sell these plants. This list is designed as a first step in choosing a plant for your site and not as a blanket recommendation. For more information about these plants please visit the FNPS website or use another trusted source.
Here we break plants up into functional groups including trees, shrubs, herbs, grass and grasses-likes, ferns and fern-likes. We then have the scientific name sorted alphabetically by genus.
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Trees |
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Carya aquatica |
water hickory |
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Nyssa aquatica |
water tupelo |
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Taxodium ascendens |
pond-cypress |
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Taxodium distichum |
bald-cypress |
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Forbs |
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Bacopa caroliniana |
lemon bacopa |
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Bacopa monnieri |
herb-of-grace |
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Ceratophyllum demersum |
coontail |
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Habenaria repens |
waterspider false reinorchid |
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Sagittaria lancifolia |
bulltongue arrowhead |
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Sagittaria latifolia |
broadleaf arrowhead; common arrowhead; duck potato |
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Sagittaria spp. |
arrowhead |
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Canna flaccida |
bandanna-of-the-everglades |
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Crinum americanum |
seven-sisters |
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Iris hexagona |
carolina iris; dixie iris |
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Iris virginica |
virginia iris; blue flag iris |
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Nymphaea odorata |
american white waterlily |
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Lobelia cardinalis |
cardinalflower |
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Saururus cernuus |
lizard's tail |
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Peltandra sagittifolia |
white arrow arum; spoonflower |
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Pontederia cordata |
pickerelweed |
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Potamogeton spp. |
pondweed |
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Peltandra virginica |
white arrow arum; spoonflower |
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Thalia geniculata |
alligatorflag; fireflag |
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Utricularia spp. |
bladderwort |
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Vallisneria americana |
tapegrass; american eelgrass |
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Grasses |
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Carex spp. |
sedge |
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Fimbristylis spp. |
fimbry |
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Cladium jamaicense |
jamaica swamp sawgrass |
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Juncus effusus subsp. solutus |
soft rush |
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Juncus spp. |
rush |
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Scirpus spp. |
bulrush |
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Zizaniopsis miliacea |
southern wild rice; giant cutgrass |
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Typha domingensis |
southern cattail |
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Typha latifolia |
broadleaf cattail |
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Zizania aquatica |
annual wild rice; indian rice |
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Vines |
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Gelsemium rankinii |
rankin's jessamine; swamp jessamine |
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Aquatic |
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Ludwigia repens |
creeping primrosewillow |
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Nelumbo lutea |
american lotus |
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Nuphar advena |
spatterdock; yellow pondlily |
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Nymphaea mexicana |
yellow waterlily |
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Nymphaea elegans |
tropical royalblue waterlily |
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Nymphoides aquatica |
big floatingheart |
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Nymphoides cordata |
little floatingheart |
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Orontium aquaticum |
goldenclub; neverwet |
