General Culture:
Winter hardy to USDA Zones 5-10. In water gardens, grow in containers submerged in 6-18 of water in full sun. Leaves tend to emerge in shallow water (6-9), but mostly float in deeper water (12-18). Tolerates part shade, but best leaf color is developed in full sun. Thrives in organically rich loams. Also may be grown in the shallow margins of a pond, either in containers or planted in the mud from the waters edge to 18 deep. Easily grown from seed that should be sown as soon as it ripens (early summer).
Noteworthy Characteristics:
Golden club is a rhizomatous marginal aquatic perennial that typically grows in shallow water in swamps, marshes, ponds, slow-moving streams and bogs from Massachusetts to W. Virginia and Kentucky south to the Gulf of Mexico. Grows 1-2 tall and spreads indefinitely by stout, slowly creeping rhizomes. Long-stalked elliptic dark bluish-green leaves (to 12 long) are submerged, floating or aerial. If removed from water, submerged leaves appear totally dry because of their waxy glaucous surface, hence the sometimes common name of never-wet for this plant. Tiny yellow flowers appear in narrow club-like spadixes (to 8 tall) from April to June. Spathes of this Arum family member are small, non-showy and wither rapidly.
Problems:
No serious insect or disease problems.
Uses:
Transitional plant for water gardens and ponds. Bog gardens.
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