Common Name: Pickerel Rush / PickerelweedPlant Description Name: Pontederia cordata "Pickerel Rush" A beautiful tall hardy plant that will be a wonderful addition your water garden or pond. With glossy olive green spearhead-shape foliage that leads up to the striking 6-8 inch spike-shaped violet-blue flowers that quickly form dense clumps of 1 inch blooms. Pickerel Rush will grace your pond in violet-blue color from early summer until fall. Requires very little care. Pickerel rush is great for bogs and marshy areas and provides good water filtration for your pond / water garden. Leave in pots to control growth. Full sun to part shade, up to 30" tall, Zone 5-11 Attention California customers this plant is legal in California however, California Dept. of Agriculture reserves the right to destroy the plant at their discretion.
