Flowering Rosette Plants in the AquariumAuthor: Rhonda Wilson
Most of the plants we grow in our aquariums flower naturally in
the wild, but this can be a rare instance in home aquaria. It
can be very exciting to find your aquatic plants producing
blossoms, and some can even be propagated this way. There are a
few tips for knowing what plants are most likely to flower, and
what they need in order to do so. All flowering plants are
called angiosperms. Not all the plants in the aquarium are
angiosperms. Mosses, liverworts like Riccia and pelia, and
aquatic ferns like Java fern, Bolbitis, and Ceratopteris,are
more primitive plants that don’t produce flowers or seeds, but
instead create spores, thus their name of “sporophytes.” Of
course any of the flowering plants that we keep in our aquariums
have the potential to flower for us, but some are much more
likely to do so than others. There are several aquarium plants
that are happy to surprise us with flowers, while others may
require more coaxing. In this column an