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Potamogeton cheesemanii
Red pondweed is a submerged and floating aquatic plant native to New Zealand and possibly southern Australia, growing in ponds, lakes and slow streams. Keep its roots in water or moist mud and give it open, sunny water to grow well.
Potamogeton cheesemanii or red pondweed (rērēwai or mānihi in Māori) is a species of plant, indigenous to New Zealand and Australia. It is a vascular monocot.
This species is found across New Zealand, on all of the major islands including the Chatham Islands, and some of the minor islands such as Great Barrier. It also grows in southern Australia and Tasmania, although at least one authority considers it endemic to New Zealand.
Sharp-leaved pondweed · Alpine pondweed · Largeleaf pondweed · Small Pondweed · Little aguja pondweed · Fen Pondweed · Grass-wrack pondweed · Tuckerman's pondweed · Curly pondweed · Little-leaf pondweed · Pondweed · Waterthread pondweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Potamogeton cheesemanii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
