- Type:
- Emergent
- Light Exposure:
- Full Sun
- Soil Moisture:
- Medium
- Height:
- 3 feet
- Project:
- Boulevard, Erosion Control, Restoration
- Bloom Color:
- White
- Bloom Months:
- May, June, July, August, September
- Flooding / Inundation Tolerance:
- High
- Salt Tolerance:
- Medium
- Stress Tolerance:
- General Disturbance
- Herbivore Sensitivity:
- Medium
- Behavior (Rate of Spread):
- 3
- Pollinator Value:
- Low
- Benefit to Pollinators:
- Larval Food
- Pollinators:
- Larval Host (Moth)
- Counties:
- Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Carlton, Carver, Cass, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater, Cook, Crow Wing, Dakota, Douglas, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Hennepin, Houston, Hubbardard, Isanti, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Kandiyohibec, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Mahnomen, Marshall, McLeod, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Nicollet, Nobles, Otter Tail, Pennington, Pine, Polk, Pope, Ramsey, Red Lake, Redwood, Rice, Roseau, SCottonwood, Sherburne, Sibley, St. Louis, Stearns, Todd, Wabasha, Wadena, Waseca, Washington, Watonwan, Wilkin, Winona, Wright
Notes/Description:
A decorative, perennial herb, usually emergent with a mature height of 3-4 feet. Water plantain is well adapted for use in upper and lower shoreline zones, for streambank stabilization, and in vegetated swales. It is also well suited for restorations of wetlands, low spots in wet prairies and wet meadows. Alisma triviale prefers full or partial sun and mucky soil or shallow, slow-moving, even stagnant water. It withstands drought better than most aquatic plants. The oval basal leaves of Alisma trivale are about one-foot tall and form a rosette from which rises a whorled panicle of small white flowers, reaching a height of three feet during summer. This species prefers full or partial sun and mucky soil or shallow, slow-moving, even stagnant water. It withstands drought better than most aquatic plants.