Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Borages
  6. Borage Family
  7. Baby Blue Eyes, Phacelias, and Waterleaves
  8. Waterleaves
  9. Top native

Top native waterleaves

10 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

Filter

10 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Part shade 3 Dappled shade 2 Full shade 5

Soil and water

Moisture

Moist 4 Wet 1

Water use

Medium 1 High 1

Soil

Rocky 2 Loam 1 Organic 2

Soil pH

Neutral 2 Alkaline 1

Toughness

Resists

Wet soil 1

Form

Habit

Erect 1 Spreading 1

Plant type

Perennial 8 Wildflower 7 Ground cover 1 Herbaceous perennial 1
  • Virginia Waterleaf Hydrophyllum virginianum caterpillars 1 bees 1 flowers 56
  • Large-leaf Water Leaf Hydrophyllum macrophyllum caterpillars 1 bees 1 flowers 2
  • Great Waterleaf Hydrophyllum appendiculatum bees 1 flowers 57
  • Broad-leaf Waterleaf Hydrophyllum canadense bees 1 flowers 5
  • Ballhead Waterleaf Hydrophyllum capitatum food 1 flowers 12
  • Fendler's Waterleaf Hydrophyllum fendleri flowers 14
  • Pacific Waterleaf Hydrophyllum tenuipes flowers 9
  • Western Waterleaf Hydrophyllum occidentale flowers 3
  • Alpine Waterleaf Hydrophyllum alpestre flowers 3
  • Brown's Waterleaf Hydrophyllum brownei

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect