Live Pickerel Rush Pond Plant | Purple Blooming Aquatic Plant | Hardy Marginal Water Plant | Potted | Easy to Grow

Enhance your pond or water garden with a live Pickerel Rush, a beautiful aquatic marginal plant known for its striking spikes of purple flowers and lush green foliage. This hardy perennial forms attractive clumps that add texture, color, and vertical interest to ponds, rain gardens, bog gardens, and water features. Easy to grow and low maintenance, Pickerel Rush thrives in consistently wet conditions and is an excellent choice for attracting pollinators while creating a natural waterside landscape. Your plant arrives potted and ready for planting or placement in your pond. You will receive a healthy plant similar in size and quality to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Pickerel Rush plant
✔️ Healthy, rooted aquatic plant
✔️ Shipped in nursery pot
✔️ Ready for ponds, bogs, or container water gardens
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

🌼 Growing Information
Common Name: Pickerel Rush
Botanical Name: Pontederia cordata
Plant Type: Aquatic marginal perennial
Growth Stage: Established live plant
Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
Soil: Moist soil or shallow water with nutrient-rich substrate
Watering: Keep roots consistently wet; ideal for shallow water or saturated soil
Mature Height: 2–4 feet
Growth Rate: Moderate
USDA Zones: 3–10
Container Friendly: Yes

💡 Care Tip: Place Pickerel Rush in shallow water or along the edge of a pond with the crown positioned just above the waterline. Remove spent flower spikes as needed and divide mature clumps every few years to encourage vigorous growth.