2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The bog is also called a water star, and this is no accident: the bizarre rosettes of its floating leaves are in fact somewhat similar to beautiful stars with many rays. In areas with a temperate climate, you can meet about seventeen species of bog marsh - it grows mainly in fresh water bodies. This plant is of particular decorative interest, as it can become an excellent decoration for various reservoirs
Getting to know the plant
Swamp is the only representative of the genus of flowering plants belonging to the Plantain family (somewhat earlier it was allocated to the Bolotnikov family). This herbaceous perennial can be completely or partially submerged in water, or it can spread along the ground (if the bog grows on land). It is endowed with filamentous shoots, which can be with opposite leaves or without them at all. The length of the shoots ranges from three to twenty centimeters.
The stems of the bog are rooting and rather branched. And the shape of the leaves largely depends on the location of the bog. Plants dwelling near the water surface are equipped with long internodes and linear shiny or lanceolate leaves. If the tops of the bog shoots are above the water surface, then their internodes are short, and the leaves collected in rosettes are spatulate or elliptical. And the terrestrial varieties of the water star are equipped with almost round or oval leaves.
The flowers of the swamp are rather inconspicuous, and the fruits of this plant open up and disintegrate when opened into four single-seeded fruits. They usually ripen from July to September. And the seeds, as a rule, are spread with the help of water and are endowed with a rather juicy endosperm.
The bog bog is characterized by a different life span, which depends not only on its species, but to a large extent also on the conditions of its cultivation. Decorating numerous reservoirs and purifying the water, the bog bog helps to establish an ecological balance in them, giving shelter to all kinds of aquatic animals.
The most famous species of this aquatic plant are: common swamp, marsh, spring, indistinct, pond (underwater), changeable, leg-fruited, bisexual, graceful, short-fruited, autumn and others.
How to grow
A bog can grow not only in water, but also on land. It also develops well on waterlogged soil. It will feel equally good both in partial shade and in sunny areas. Slow flowing or standing water is great for growing bog. A water star is planted directly into the soil of reservoirs. In principle, it is not forbidden to place the bog in the ground and in containers. At the same time, it is important to know that with a fairly deep planting (up to half a meter), the bog leaves can remain under water, and with a shallow planting (up to ten to twenty centimeters), the water asterisk will grow especially decorative. Well, any soil for growing this aquatic inhabitant is suitable.
The swamp is propagated by seeds and by division. It is also allowed to be transferred from natural reservoirs to artificial ones - for this it is enough to take a small part of the mother bush. All plants intended for transplantation should be thoroughly examined and washed in order to prevent the larvae of various insects or snails from entering the artificial reservoir. To plant a bog, several shoots tied together are immersed in the water, to the base of which a pebble is tied. Overgrown plants are periodically thinned out - a net will be a good helper for this.
The bog is quite unpretentious in care - except for periodic thinning and a little shading, it does not really need anything. Moreover, it is a very winter-hardy plant. Despite its ineradicability, the bog does not differ in aggressiveness, does not interfere with the surrounding vegetation at all and does not try to displace it.
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