I could not find this plant listed in plantfiles nor could I google information about it's botanical name. Can anyone give me some information?
I have some planted in my fishing pond and also some in an old iron fireplace pot. I'll post pictures of the varigated one that's it in my pot on my patio.
Here's a varigated leaf of Picklerweed in an iron pot.
Picklerweed in the iron pot before it bloomed. My friend has it reluctantly in her Koi Pond. Always having to thin it out.
It's called Pickerel Rush.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1239/
Glenda
Glenda, thank you so much. I've about pulled my hair out trying to locate it.
Glenda, is so right! (A "pickerel" is a type of agressive pike-like fish, why it would have a weed named after it is a mystery to me) It is a native here in Fla. and grows in all our ditches quite happily...I have harvested some of the roadside plants (always on the look out for cotton-mouths yuck)...the highway construction was going to destroy it, as a strip mall was going to be built...i grow it in one of those "wine barrels" and it has been thriving for years...i would think Ga. would have it growing roadside too? The bees and pollinators love it..a gorgeous shade of blue isn't it? Did not know there was a variegated cultivar! Lovely! sue
Hey y'all again. so sorry for being so late getting back here.
Well I want to thank y'all for correctly identifying my pond plant.
Funny you mentioned the varegated cultivar, Sue. The picture above is varegated but only when it was in that iron pot. Could the iron change the leaf color? I stopped using that pot when it completely filled up with this plant that same year. Moved all of it to our fishing pond where it grows happily but completely solid green. No more varegated leaf coloration. :(
The "varigation" was most lilkely and very ironically, being in an iron pot, iron chlorosis.
Aha! Thanks. It seemed to bloom ok. But maybe it's a good thing I moved the plant.
