I have some 12-inch plants that are planted in the boggy soil area at the edge of my pond. They are called 'arrow' something... but what exactly, im not sure. It seems to be a common pond plant - ive seen it in many pictures online.

Anyway - mine is turning yellow and dying back. The other pond plants and grasses next to it are fine. Im wondering if this arrow plant usually dies back in the winter - will it come back on its own or will I need to pull it out and replace it?

Im in So. California... the daytime temps are still 80-90.. but it gets into the 50's at night.

I assume you have arrowhead. As the leaves age, they turn yellow and then brown. In the fall in colder regions, they are one of the first plants to go yellow and die back for winter. Being that you're in a warmer area (where arrowhead is not native), I am not sure how it would behave. I cut off the yellow leaves of my various marginals as they die back.

Im cutting off the leaves and stems as they die. Do you know if the plant will usually sprout back up in the spring? If not, I can just rip them all out now and plant some other plants in its place. :D

If the roots are left there, it should return in the spring. Again, since you're in a warmer climate than arrowhead is used to, I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not.

Sxyred,

i live in zone 6 and i was worrying that all my arrowheads grew limp, yellow, and died - i did the following:

i grabed the dead folliage and found it was all dead and then dug up the gravel and found that, even though the plant's entire corpus of foliage was finished, so to speak, there were these fleshy, clearly living small bulbs in the gravel from which the dead plant material stems from - therefore, its clear that, just like dafolids or what ever plants, the plant dies but the rootsystem and these little bulblike rhizome systems go dormant and i expect it to make it over the winter.