Bog arum
Calla palustris L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Araceae
Also called Bog Arum, Water arum
Formerly Calla brevis, Calla cordifolia, Calla generalis, Callaion bispatha, and 8 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Semiaquatic subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Japan, Subarctic America to N. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 30 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Simplified Chinese
- 水浮莲, 水芋, 水葫芦
- Chinese
- 金盏菊根, 水芋
- Czech
- ďáblík bahenní
- German
- Sumpf-Schlangenwurz, Sumpfdrachenwurz
- Finnish
- suovehka
- French
- Arum d'Eau, calla, Calla des Marais
- Dutch
- slangenwortel
- Slovenian
- močvirska kačunka
- Turkish
- Su Arumu, Gala Çiçeği, Gelin Çiçeği, Kala Çiçeği
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Calla palustris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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