The shore of a little lake, an illustration from the fin du siecle.
All these plants are discussed on the website:
1 Purple loosestrive,2 cattails,3 flowering rush
4 Common Mare's tale,5 waterlily,6 Watersoldier
7 Frogbite,8 waterviolier,9 arrowhead,
10 water horsetail, 11 yellow pond lily,
A waterplant rather uncommon waterplant. It flowers
at the early start of the summer with violet flowers on
a long stem. This stem stands out half a meter above the waterlevel.
Water violet can cover large area's of a ditch. During
wintertime the roots survive the cold on the bottom,
all the underwaterleaves die. If you want to keep
waterviolet in youre pond then that pond should be
deep enough
Waterviolet attracts a lot of waterlife , just like Watersoldier and Hornwort
This is because the underleaves give shelter for fishes ,
frogfish,Newts and insects . But they also feed them
as those leaves are covered with algae (this is called
"Aufwuchs", a german term). Its normal for a waterplant
to carry more weight from "Aufwuchs" then its own weight.
Here are the frogfish from Brown frog
eating the Aufwuchs from the leaves.
Waterviolet attracts a lot of waterlife , just like 
