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Stuckenia vaginata
Also called Big Sheathed Pondweed, Giant Pondweed
Sheathed pondweed is a fully submerged freshwater or brackish aquatic plant found in Europe, northern Asia and North America, grown mainly in ponds and water gardens. Its key requirement is permanent submersion in clean, cool water.
Stuckenia vaginata (syn. Potamogeton vaginatus), commonly called sheathed pondweed, big sheathed pondweed or large-sheathed pondweed is a water plant species that grows in fresh and brackish water in Europe, Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America. Sheathed pondweed is rare, but is not in the 2012 IUCN Red List.
Stuckenia vaginata is a fully submerged aquatic plant and does not have any floating or emerged leaves.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stuckenia vaginata 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.
