Pickerel Rush Live Pond Plant – Pontederia cordata | Includes Nursery Pot | Purple Flowering Aquatic Marginal | Hardy Water Garden Plant | Easy to Grow

Enhance your pond or water garden with this live Pickerel Rush plant, shipped in its nursery pot and ready to plant. Pontederia cordata is a hardy aquatic marginal plant admired for its attractive green foliage and beautiful spikes of purple flowers that bloom from late spring through summer. Its clumping growth habit makes it an excellent choice for pond edges, bog gardens, rain gardens, and aquatic landscapes while attracting bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. You will receive a healthy plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Pickerel Rush plant
✔️ Shipped in a nursery pot
✔️ Healthy, rooted aquatic plant
✔️ Ready for planting
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

🌼 Growing Information
Common Name: Pickerel Rush
Botanical Name: Pontederia cordata
Plant Type: Hardy aquatic marginal perennial
Growth Stage: Established live plant
Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
Soil: Heavy loam or aquatic planting media
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 (aquatic containers)

💡 Care Tip: Plant at the edge of a pond or in shallow water with the crown slightly above the soil line. Maintain consistent moisture and divide mature clumps every few years to encourage vigorous growth and abundant flowering.