Southern Waternymph
Najas guadalupensisnative · Central Texas
Southern Waternymph is a wildflower native to Central Texas that grows 2 ft tall. It wants full sun and high water. Blooms green in summer.
Wet ground only. A wetland plant: it needs standing water or saturated soil — a pond edge, creek bank or rain garden, not a dry upland bed.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun (6–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- High
- Height
- About 2 ft
- Bloom
- Summer · green
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
Where it grows
95 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.