I have a plant that was transferred from my old pond last year. If memory serves me, this was a dwarf cattail that changed and grew dramatically after putting it in the new pond. My problem is, I'm starting to question my memory... From what I can recall, this plant started out with thin round leaves, but once it actually started growing well in the new pond, the leaves opened up into these more V-shaped stems which grow about a foot tall, then split into about 6 separate leaves.
There have been no cattails nor any other flowers on this plant, so I cannot identify it that way. Because of the way the leaves split near the top, it reminds me more of the umbrella plants - however some quick research shows that those will not survive below zones 7-8, so I wouldn't have even tried growing it (this plant survived the past Winter and started growing fast while it was still cold). The other thing is that I was babying along my one known cattail, and I'm about 95% certain that this is where I placed it so it would have good growing conditions... Even so, I am hoping to get some verification?
Here's a link to the full-sized image, cropped so the plant in question is front and bottom-center (ignore the iris leaves poking up right in front of the plant)... http://www.sourpuss....6/img_6156x.jpg
There have been no cattails nor any other flowers on this plant, so I cannot identify it that way. Because of the way the leaves split near the top, it reminds me more of the umbrella plants - however some quick research shows that those will not survive below zones 7-8, so I wouldn't have even tried growing it (this plant survived the past Winter and started growing fast while it was still cold). The other thing is that I was babying along my one known cattail, and I'm about 95% certain that this is where I placed it so it would have good growing conditions... Even so, I am hoping to get some verification?
Here's a link to the full-sized image, cropped so the plant in question is front and bottom-center (ignore the iris leaves poking up right in front of the plant)... http://www.sourpuss....6/img_6156x.jpg