Wetland Plants

These plants live in and around rivers - slow and fast moving, ponds, canals, lakes, wet meadows and marshes and also in damp woodlands where the ground is more waterlogged. Some of these plants are submerged in water and others occur in wet muddy areas.

Grasses, sedges and rushes often line the banks of wetland areas such as rivers, and in the water Yellow Water Lily and water crowfoots grow. Water crowfoots are particularly important for chalk streams and can grow in slow to fairly fast flowing rivers.

Water Mint grows in fens, marshes, wet meadows and by freshwater; Water Avens grows in wet meadows, marshes and damp woodlands; Trifir Bur-Marigold grows in ponds, ditches and fens; Common Water Starwort grows in ponds, streams, ditches and on wet mud; Watercress is found in streams ditches and running water. Rigid Hornwort prefers still fresh and brackish water and Fool’s Watercress grows in ditches.