CREEPING BURHEAD

Echinodorus cordifolius

 

1 to 2 feet

Fast rate of growth

Full sun to partial shade

Wet soil or shallow standing water

Zones 8 to 10

 

An herbaceous annual or short-lived perennial that spreads by new plantlets

 rooting from the nodes of the flower stalk; with long basal leaves with prominent,

cord-like veins and arching spikes of white 3-petaled flowers on leafless stalks.