Purple Pickerel Rush Plant - Aquatic Perennial with Purple Blooms - Pontederia cordata

Purple Pickerel Rush Plant Overview

The Purple Pickerel Rush (Pontederia cordata) is a captivating aquatic perennial known for its vibrant purple and lavender trumpet-shaped flowers. Standing 6-8 inches tall at shipment with established roots, this plant is perfect for enhancing water gardens, ponds, and bogs. Its lush green, heart-shaped leaves create a striking contrast against its colorful blooms, making it a beautiful addition to any aquatic landscape.

Key Features

• Produces spikes of stunning purple and lavender trumpet-shaped flowers
• Lush green, heart-shaped foliage adds visual interest
• Ideal for water gardens, ponds, and bog environments
• Acts as a natural water filter to help maintain water quality
• Provides shelter for aquatic wildlife, supporting ecosystem balance
• Ships moist with established roots for immediate planting
• Harvested fresh on the day of shipment to ensure plant health

Growing Information

The Purple Pickerel Rush thrives in full sun to partial shade and prefers consistently moist soil, making it well-suited for submerged or shallow water conditions. It grows best in rich, loamy soil typical of wetland habitats. This plant is hardy in USDA zones 3 through 10 and grows upright with slender stalks reaching heights between 2 and 4 feet, adding vertical interest to aquatic settings.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.