Ponds
The two Botanical Garden’s ponds present the Dombes’ flora, the Dombes is a region that is near from Lyon so Lyonese people can admire some rarities: Marsilea quadrifolia, Carex bohemica, Mentha pulegium, Bidens bullata, Pilularia globulifera…
A number of taxons from the region’s swamps are also growing here such as Menyanthes trifoliata, Carex pseudo-cyperus, Hippuris vulgaris, Samolus valerandi, Cyperus flavescens, Grattiola officinalis, Succisella inflexa (a species that have now disappeared in our region and maybe in France), Carex melanostycha and Allium angulosum from Saone’s vale…
Allium angulosum
L.
A great number of plants from different regions or countries comes adding to these ones: Lysimachia ephemerum (from Pyrénées), Ligularia sibirica (from Lozère), Pontederia cordata… On the border of the ponds some species that have been introduced in the aquatic environment of our flora are growing: Ludwigia grandiflora, Bidens aurea, radiata and subalternans, Egeria densa, Elodea canadensis…
Jussiaea peploides
Kunth
Among the 250 species presented here, garden lovers will have the possibility of admiring more familiar plants such as mints, myosotis, water lilies… observing our ponds’ aquatic faun: frogs, tritons, turtles, fishes... and asking for some information about how to build a basin, its depth and the adapted substratum.