Is this pickerel weed

I bought a curly juncus and sunk it in my container water garden. It died but in its place this nice little gree plant is growing and thriving.

thanks for your help in IDing this plant

another view

Sure looks like pickerel to me. I have had trouble with the curly juncus too; I wonder what's up with that. Isn't it nice that you got a bonus plant tho......

How was the trip?

Hiya Vossner, that does look like Pickerel to me too. My curly juncus didn't make it here either, I don't know what's up with that either.

hiya girlies. I was told that the crown of the plant CANNOT be immersed in water. you can sink the pot but not to the crown. Thanks for the ID.

Trip was wonderful, but I am glad to be home watching my plants get crispy in the unforgiving sun.

Thanks for the tips, vossner. Welcome back home to the Southern sky. :-)

Interesting about the juncus. That might be hard to regulate in the summer here. I have lotus in my water pots and they can drink up to several inches of water a day; the juncus might be left high and dry if I were to go away for a day or two.

The temps have finally moderated a bit here. Isn't it funny when you think the hgh 80's is comfortable?

Vossner, I have something that looks very much like Pickerel but it has a white flower with a yellow center different from my purple pickerel. Sorry I don't have a pic of the flower, was meaning to take one for ID but missed my chance unless it flowers again. I may have to hit some of the water plant web sites and see what I can find.

thank you HollyAnn. And yes, A. I found myself commenting that it we were going to enjoy a "cool" 94 deg. today, lol.

HollyAnn, it sounds like you might have saggiteria (sp?) or giant saggiteria; they both have white flowers.

Thank you ardesia I will look that up. My son bought a house last fall that had a small pond. The pond hadn't been running and is filled with a foot of muck, it was covered with what I thought was pickerel. There is pickerel but there is also this other plant and it is barely different wouldn't have known that it wasn't pickerel if it hadn't bloomed.Whatever it is must be hardy to my Zone 6. I also pulled some water lilies that came up and I am hoping they will bloom so I can see what they look like.

well, I'll be. I wonder if this is pickerel weed after all. Found these two blooms in my container water garden this am.

here is a full view of my 6 gal. container water garden.

Adorable little water pot Nery. That definitely is not pickerel and I haven't a clue what it might be. I used to each water gardening classes and knew all the plants but since my brain has turned to mush I don't remember anything. :-)

Agreed, def. not Pickerel. Very nice and healthy looking, the pot is attractive too. :-)

I didn't realize it was that small. Very pretty no matter what it is.
BTW, I wanted to mention ardesia, I would say that you were right about my plant. The flowers definitely looked like saggiteria. Still don't have any pics as the blooms seem to lay about the water and aren't at a good angle to photograph.

I was looking at your picture of the water plants and (pretty too, I might add), but I have some of those things in the water and wondering what the names are. What is the skelleton thing UNDER the water(spiney) and I know what the water lettuce is, I have that, What is the tiny stuff floating ON the water. Is that duck weed? I have some of that too, just didn't know the names of the spiney thing and the tiny floaters. Can you tell me what they are? Thanks.Mekos

You mean in the second picture? I think that looks like the plant roots or maybe some string algae.

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NO, In the last picture you can see the spiney thing in the water and it's not roots. Someone sent me a water plant and a couple were in there as well. It's not algea. It's a water plant that looks like a thorny vine but it is soft and grows. I have 2-3 pieces. Also wanted to know what the tiny things floating was, IF it's duck weed or what.

mekos it is hornwort. This particular one must have snuck in. But I have bought it and placed it in my little garden. I really didn't like it because it reminded me of wet, green cotton. I eventually took the one I bought out but the one you see is a sneak. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.naturalaquariums.com/plants/hornwort2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.naturalaquariums.com/plants/ceratophyllum.html&h=516&w=387&sz=46&tbnid=ESb1LJPlnsvoJM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhornwort&usg=__DL5sgUVhUk6SeTC5wFy79NjTVMU=&ei=JwpaSu79OcmVtgesyr3dCg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image

The plants presently in my container: frogbit, water lettuce (illegal to grow in TX so if you don't see me posting it may be b/c water lettuce police hauled me away in the paddywagon), the "not water pickerel".

If you're wondering why bother w/ such a little container, here's my answer. This is in my patio, which has a pool and a fountain. I thought having something bigger would be overkill, in terms of water feature. Initially I threw in some mosquito fish but my kitty became too attached to this container so when he ate them all, I didn't replace.

Actually I love it. I was trying to ID some plants I have that look similar . I looked for mosquito fish, but couldn't find any around here, so I got some tiny gold fish and they are growing pretty good now. Here is my spiney thing , Another picture to follow.

Here are the tiny things floating on the water and there are 2 different ones. One has three tiny leaves and one is real lacey and ruffeled, both are very tiny. ONE more picture coming.

Here is the last one, if you could tell me what is what, I sure would appreciate it.

I believe that is frogbit and it starts little, then it grows to about the size of a dime. I'm talking about the pic you posted at 11:42.

The pic posted at 11:43, I don't know what that is. Maybe if you google floating aquatic plants you can recognize yours.

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Mekos, I was with my friend who bought the frogbit and then split her plant w/ me. I am going by this pic. See how the leaves start little, then get to size of dime? On the other hand, it could also be that some duckweed snuck in.

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One of mine is round ruffled leaves and one is three tiny leaves which could possibly be frogbite, but not sure as it is still so small, and the spiney plant is growing in the clay, not floating, It's actually planted. I have several pieces but none have leaves just spines going in all directions.This is it with my lotus stems and roots. Look into the water to see it. It is just stems going out all directions.You had this one in your pot also.

I'll go outside later and try to take better pics so we can be on the same page, so to speak.

IN your second picture, upper right (top) side, under the algea. That thing that looks like roots- but isn't roots.

Thought I'd let you know, I got the ID on the water plants. I went to plant ID forum and they ID-ed them there. Thank you for trying though.

Oh no Vos, I like little container gardens. So many people think they don't have room for a water garden and really they just don't think how very attractive and pretty a large pot can be. I just meant that Pickerel is a pretty good sized pant and that one looks much smaller than I realized. Of course they are coming up with smaller varieties all the time. Especially for the smaller container gardens.

That spiney looking thing that looks like roots is a Najas guadalupensis, southern naiad. and the duckweed, and my frilly thing is water fern-Azolla filiculoides.

I am still puzzled by the plant with the little white flower. Havy you figured that one out yet Nery? Maybe the Plant ID forum could help with that one too.

not that this is keeping me awake at nights, but I took this pic yesterday morning, showing blue flower AND white bud. Also a bee taking a drink.

Ahhh, who cares what it is, it's purdy.

It really is.

I believe that white flower is a water snowflake. It comes in white and yellow.

I thought that at first but the snowflakes I have had in the past had floating leaves; this one seems to have upright leaves.