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Vallisneria
Vallisneria is a large, reed like submerged pond plant, that has pale green leaves that grow toward the surface like ribbons. Use this pond plant with weighted anchors or containers. Plant several bunches together in a pot with soil. They can also be planted in your ponds gravel. Vallisneria does best when grown in shade, but can also be planted in partial shade to sun in water 6"-24" deep. This water plant is winter dormant in all climates. This is a great submerged plant for providing food and shelter for fish, and filtering the water to control free floating algae. Vallisneria is easily re-grown by removing and rooting the clustered plants which grow from the creeping root system. This plant can grow rather large and can form a dense cover for ponds making your pond water cooler.

Hornwort
Hornwort is a flowerless submerged pond plant with green bristly foliage and small branched stems. This submerged plant does not have to be planted; just place the foliage below the waters surface. This plant adds fresh oxygen in a pond or aquarium. Hornwort plants derive all their nutrients from your pond water and will compete with the algae by consuming the nutrients available in the pond. Hornwort also provides a good area for fish to spawn and hide. Although it is considered tropical, most of the time this plant will survive winter climates. This submerged plant is hardy from zones 5-10
Red Ludwigia
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Red Ludwigia is a very nice submerged pond plant with small arrow head shaped leaves. The under-bellies of these leaves are bright red in color making them very popular with customers, and aquarium hobbiest. Red ludwigia like all submerged plants does a great job controling algae in your pond as it uses the same food source, thus starving off algae growth. This plant loves a full sun pond and is a very fast grower.
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