Water-soldier
Stratiotes aloides
In Dutch: Krabbenscheer
Water & marginal plantsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 15 to 40 cm
- Spread
- 0.5 to 1 m
- Full grown after
- 5 to 10 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- None: floats loose in still water
- Water
- Plenty: lives in the pond
- Maintenance
- Low: sometimes remove rosettes
- Flowers
- May to July, white
- For bees
- Little: pollinated by flies, among others
- Hay fever
- Unknown
- Leaves
- Partly green: overwinters on the bottom
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No, as far as known
- Pricks or stings
- Yes: spiny leaves
- Price, young
- About €3.25 to €4.99 per plant, loose
- Price, grown
- Not for sale
Through the year
- Leaf
- all year
- Flower
- May to July
- Fruit
- no noticeable fruit