Saururus Cernuus (Mouse Ear/Lizard's Tail)
Saururus Cernuus (Mouse Ear/Lizard's Tail) is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Standard Shipping: Aquarium Plants are typically dispatched within 1 business day. Delivery times vary based on the destination. We do not ship live plants on Friday, unless specifically requested.
- Urban Areas: 1-3 business days
- Rural Areas: 2-5 business days
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Free shipping is available for New Zealand customers with a minimum purchase of $150.00.
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- Exclusions: Bulky items such as aquariums are excluded from the free shipping offer.
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Saururus Cernuus (Mouse Ear/Lizard's Tail) is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Saururus cernuus, known as mouse ear or lizard's tail, is a marginal aquatic plant native to North America. It carries soft, heart-shaped leaves on creeping stems and works beautifully in paludariums, ripariums and shallow tanks with emersed zones.
This is a creeping, spreading plant, so it is great for softening hardscape edges or trailing over planter margins. It grows well above the water line, where the foliage becomes denser and more decorative, and when grown emersed it can send up graceful white flower spikes that resemble a lizard's tail. It can also live submerged for a time. Give it strong light and it fills in bushier and fuller. A little CO2 helps it settle and grow at its best, and a trim now and then keeps its shape in check.
Care at a glance
- Placement: Marginal and emersed zones
- Lighting: High
- CO2: Medium
- Growth rate: Slow
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Colour: Green
Our stock is harvested fresh and algae free, and the conversion to submerged form starts in our grow-out tanks, which maximises success once it settles into your aquarium. As a plant that naturally lives at the water's edge, it is happiest growing partly out of the water.
Submerged means the plant grows fully underwater, the form most aquarium plants take once established in the tank. Emersed means it grows with its foliage above the water line, as it does along wet margins in nature, and this is the form in which Saururus cernuus flowers and looks its fullest.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Lighting Demand: High
CO₂: Medium
Growth Rate: Slow
NZ Rarity: Common
Colour: Green
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