Adding new plants to 5g

[SpaceFish42]

I have a little five gallon tank with cherry shrimp and guppy fry. It currently has a lot of java fern and java moss, and one anubias nana. The only current decorations are a sideways flower pot to hide in, and the tiny ceramic plate that came with it (I use it to put the shrimp food in). I would like to re-scape, but keep the same decorations, so it is more garden-themed (I know it probably sounds girly). So my question is: are there any aquatic flower-like plants? I'm willing to make it more high tech to meet the needs of any plants. Thanks in advance, and sorry about the rambling post...

 

[TankinWithUs]

I googled flowering plants a while back and couldn't come up with any other than the pond lillies. I kind of gave up because I'm terrified of co2!

Maybe some of the other members have ideas?

 

[SpaceFish42]

I'm guessing that there are no real flowering aquatic plants, because of pollination, but I was wondering if there was anything that looked somewhat flower-like.

 

[azmodan]

Anubias plants and especially bucephalandras will flower underwater. In my main buce tank I typically have 1-2 plants flowering at a time, although this is in a high tech tank. Buces will do fine in lowtech too, just expect a slower growth rate. Once opened the flowers will only last a few days at most underwater before beginning to disintegrate. The main negative about buces is that they are still pretty expensive.

I can take a few pics of mine later and also Google should provide many pretty pictures.

 

[SpaceFish42]

Thanks!