Pickerel Rush – Pontederia cordata Live Pond Plant | Purple Blooms | Hardy Aquatic Marginal | Potted Water Garden Plant

Enhance your pond or water garden with a live Pickerel Rush, a hardy aquatic marginal plant prized for its vibrant purple flower spikes and attractive green foliage. This healthy live plant arrives potted and ready to establish along pond edges, bog gardens, rain gardens, or other consistently moist areas. Its upright, clumping growth habit adds vertical interest while providing valuable habitat and attracting bees, butterflies, and other beneficial pollinators throughout the growing season. You will receive a healthy live 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 marginal plant
✔️ Ready for ponds, bogs, or water gardens
✔️ Carefully packaged for safe delivery

🌼 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, moisture-retentive aquatic or bog soil
Watering: Keep roots consistently wet or submerged in shallow water
Bloom Color: Purple
Bloom Season: Late spring through summer
Mature Height: 2–4 feet
Mature Width: 2–3 feet
Growth Rate: Moderate
USDA Zones: 3–10
Container Friendly: Yes, ideal for aquatic planting baskets

💡 Care Tip: Position the plant in shallow water with the crown just above the soil line or along the pond margin in consistently moist soil. Full sun encourages the best flowering, while regular division every few years helps maintain healthy growth and vigorous blooms.