Latin and English Names Water Pond Plants

For those who want to find a specific aquatic plant it may be useful to find the English name that corresponds to the Latin name or vice versa. These names have a habit of changing or they have different names in different countries. So do not treat this as a treatise on aquatic plant terminology ( think the right name is taxonomy). It is meant to help and if it does that it has succeeded.

Abrus precatorious  
Acacia auriculiformis   
Acorus calamus 
Acrostichum danaeifolium   
Aesculus pavia   
Agalinis filifolia   
Agave spp.  
Albizia julibrissin   
Albizia lebbeck   
Aleurites fordii   
Allamanda cathartica   
Allium bivalve   
Allium canadense   
Alternanthera philoxeroides   
Amaranthus australis   
Amorpha fruticosa   
Ampelopsis arborea   
Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum   
Andropogon glomeratus  
Andropogon virginicus  
Annona glabra   
Antigonon leptopus   
Apios americana   
Ardisia crenata   
Ardisia elliptica   
Ardisia escallonioides   
Arisaema dracontium   
Arundinaria gigantea   
Arundo donax   
Asclepias lanceolata 
Asclepias longifolia   
Asclepias tuberosa   
Asimina spp. 
Asparagus densiflorus   
Asparagus setaceus   
Aster carolinianus   
Avicennia germinans 
Axonopus furcatus   
Axonopus affinis   
Azolla caroliniana   
Bacopa caroliniana   
Bacopa monieri   
Baldwinia uniflora   
Bauhinia variegata   
Befaria racemosa  
Begonia cucullata 
Berchemia scandens 
Bidens laevis   
Bidens mitis   
Bignonia capreolata   
Bischofia javanica   
Blechnum serrulatum   
Borrichia frutescens   
Brachiaria mutica 
Brachiaria plantaginea   
Brasenia schreberi   
Bromelia balansae 
Bromeliads
Cabomba caroliniana   
Caesalpinia bonduc  
Calophyllum antillanum 
Campsis radicans   
Canna spp.   
Carex spp. 
Carex albolutescens   
Carex glaucescens   
Carex lupulina   
Carex stipata   
Cassytha filiformis   
Casuarina cunninghamiana   
Centella asiatica  
Cephalanthus occidentalis   
Ceratiola ericoides 
Ceratophyllum demersum   
Ceratoperis thalictroides   
Cereus spp.
Cereus gracilis   
Cestrum diurnum 
Chara spp. 
Chiococca alba  
Chionanthus retusus   
Cinnamomum camphora   
Cirsium arvense   
Cissus verticillata 
Citrus sinensis  
Cladium jamaicense   
Clematis catesbyana   
Clematis crispa   
Clerodendrum bungei   
Clerodendrum fragrans var pleniflorum   
Coccoloba uvifera 
Colocasia esculenta   
Colubrina asiatica   
Commelina virginica   
Cordia obliqua   
Coreopsis spp.  
Crinum americanum   
Cryptocoryne spp. 
Ctenitis sloanei 
Cupaniopsis anacardioides   
Cynodon dactylon   
Cyperus alopecuroides 
Cyperus alternifolius   
Cyperus articulatus   
Cyperus croceus   
Cyperus difformis   
Cyperus flavescens   
Cyperus haspan   
Cyperus iria   
Cyperus lecontei   
Cyperus odoratus  
Cyperus papyrus    
Cyperus pedunculatus (Remirea maritima)  
Cyperus plukenetii 
Cyperus polystachyos   
Cyperus prolifer
Cyperus pseudovegetus   
Cyperus strigosus   
Decodon verticillatus 
Decumaria barbara   
Delonix regia   
Desmodium trifolium   
Diodia virginiana   
Dioscorea alata  
Dioscorea bulbifera   
Distichlis spicata   
Drosera capillaris   
Duckweed 
Dulichium arundinaceum 
Echinochloa crusgalli   
Echinochloa walteri   
Echinodorus cordifolius  
Egeria densa   
Eichhornia crassipes   
Eleocharis spp.  
Eleocharis baldwinii   
Eleocharis cellulosa   
Eleocharis elongata   
Eleocharis flavescens   
Eleocharis geniculata  
Eleocharis interstincta   
Eleocharis microcarpa   
Eleocharis vivipara   
Eleusine indica   
Elodea canadensis 
Epidendrum nocturnum   
Epiphyllum oxypetallum
Equisetum hyemale   
Eragrostis elliottii   
Erianthus giganteus 
Erigeron quercifolius   
Eriocaulon decangulare   
Eryngium aquaticum   
Erythrina herbacea 
Eugenia uniflora   
Ficus aurea   
Ficus benjamina   
Ficus microcarpa  
Ficus pumila
Fimbristylous caroliniana   
Fimbristylous castanea   
Fimbristylous puberula     
Fimbristylous spathaceae   
Fraxinus caroliniana  
Froelichia floridana   
Fuirena breviseta 
Fuirena pumila   
Fuirena scirpoidea   
Fumaria officinalis   
Gelsemium sempervirens   
Gordonia lasianthus   
Gratiola ramosa
Guzmania monostachia 
Habeneria floribunda   
Habeneria repens   
Hedra helix   
Helianthus angustifolia 
Helianthus radula 
Hibiscus aculeatus 
Hibiscus coccineus   
Hydrilla verticillata  
Hydrocharis morsus
Hydrocotyle spp.   
Hydrocotyle ranunculoides 
Hydrolea corymbosa   
Hydrolea quadrivalvis 
Hygrophila costata 
Hygrophila polysperma  
Hymenachne amplexicaulis   
Hymenocallis spp. 
Hypericum brachyphyllum 
Hypericum fasciculatum   
Hypericum galioides 
Ilex cassine 
Ilex vomitoria   
Imperata cylindrica   
Ipomoea aquatica    
Ipomoea cordatrilobata 
Ipomoea fistulosa   
Ipomoea indica
Ipomoea lacunosa   
Ipomoea pandurata   
Ipomoea quamoclit
Ipomoea violacea   
Ipomopsis rubra 
Iris pseudacorus 
Iris virginica   
Iris versicolor 
Jasminum dichotomum   
Jasminum fluminense   
Jasminum mesnyi  
Juncus acuminatus    
Juncus effusus   
Juncus marginatus   
Juncus megacephalus   
Juncus roemerianus   
Kalanchoe spp. 
Kosteletzkya virginica   
Krigia virginica   
Lachnanthes caroliniana   
Lachnocaulon anceps   
Lactarius indigo 
Lagarosiphon major 
Laguncularia racemosa 
Lantana camara   
Lantana involucrata  
Lantana montevidensis  
Leersia hexandra    
Lemna spp. 
Leonitis nepetifolia 
Leucanea leucocephala  
Liatris spicata   
Licania michauxii 
Ligustrum japonicum   
Ligustrum sinense   
Lilaeopsis chinensis  
Lilium catesbaei 
Limnobium spongia   
Limnophila sessiliflora   
Linaria canadensis   
Lipocarpha maculata   
Lobelia cardinalis 
Lobelia glandulosa    
Lonicera japonica  
Lonicera sempervirens   
Lophiola aurea 
Ludwigia arcuata  
Ludwigia grandiflora 
Ludwigia hexapetala 
Ludwigia leptocarpa   
Ludwigia palustris   
Ludwigia peruviana  
Ludwigia repens   
Ludwigia suffruticosa   
Luziola fluitans   
Lycium caroliniana   
Lygodium japonicum   
Lygodium microphyllum   
Lythrum salicaria 
Macfadyena unguis
Manilkara zapota 
Mayaca fluviatilis   
Melaleuca qunquenervia   
Melanthera nivea   
Melia azedarach   
Melica mutica   
Melinis repens   
Merremia dissecta   
Micranthemum spp.   
Mikania scandens   
Mimosa pigra   
Mimosa quadrivalvis var Floridana   
brier
Mimosa strigillosa   
Mitreola petiolata   
Momordica charantia   
Morinda royoc   
Morrenia odorata   
Muhlenbergia capillaris   
Myrica cerifera   
Myriophyllum aquaticum   
Myriophyllum pinnatum   
Myriophyllum spicatum   
Najas marina   
Nandina domestica  
Nelumbo lutea   
Nelumbo nucifera 
Nemastylis floridana   
Nephrolepis biseratta   
Nephrolepis cordifolia   
Nephrolepis exaltata   
Neyraudia reynaudiana   
Nuphar luteum   
Nymphaea hybrids   
Nymphaea odorata   
Nymphaea mexicana   
Nymphoides aquatica   
Nymphoides cristata 
Opuntia humifusa   
Orontium aquaticum   
Osmunda regalis   
Oxalis corymbosa  
Oxypolis filiformis   
Paederia cruddasiana   
Paederia foetida  
Pandanus spp.  
Panicum elongifolia   
Panicum hemitomon   
Panicum maximum   
Panicum repens   
Panicum rigidulum   
Panicum scabriusculum   
Panicum virgatum   
Parthenocissus quinquefolia   
Paspalidium geminatum   
Paspalum notatum   
Paspalum repens   
Paspalum urvillei   
Paspalum vaginatum   
Passiflora incarnata  
Peltandra virginica   
Pennisetum advena   
Pennisetum purpureum   
Persea borbonia  
Phragmites australis   
Phyllostachys meyeri 
Pinus clausa 
Pistia stratiotes  
Polygala rugelii   
Polygonum spp.   
Polygonum densiflorum   
Polypogon monspeliensis   
Polyrrhiza lindenii   
Pontederia cordata   
Potamogeton spp.   
Potamogeton diversifolius   
Potamogeton illinoensis   
Potamogeton nodosus 
Potamogeton pectinatus   
Proserpinaca palustris  
Prunus angustifolia  
Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides   
Pseudosasa japonica   
Psidium cattleianum   
Psidium guajava   
Ptilimnium capillaceum   
Pueraria montana    
Pyrostegia venusta   
Quercus myrtifolia   
Remirea maritima (Cyperus pedunculatus) 
Rhexia mariana    
Rhizophora mangle   
Rhododendron chapmanii   
Rhodomyrtus tomentosa   
Rhoeo spathacea   
Rhynchospora spp. (immature)   
Rhynchospora cephalantha   
Rhynchospora colorata (Dichromena colorata)    
Rhynchospora globularis   
Rhynchospora inundata   
Rhynchospora nitens   
Rhynchospora traceyi   
Ricinus communis   
Rivina humilis   
Robinia pseudoacacia 
Rorippa floridana   
Rosa laevigata   
Ruellia brittonia    
Ruppia maritima    
Sabatia calycina  
Sabatia grandiflora   
Saccharum giganteum (Erianthus giganteus)   
grass
Saccharum officnarum   
Sacciolepis indica   
Sacciolepis striata   
Sagittaria spp.   
Sagittaria graminea   
Sagittaria kurziana  
Sagittaria lancifolia   
Sagittaria latifolia   
Sagittaria stagnorum   
Sagittaria subulata
Salvinia minima    
Salvinia molesta   
Sambucus canadensis   
Sansevieria hyacinthoides   
Sapium sebiferum   
Sarcostemma clausum   
Sarracenia minor   
Saururus cernuus   
Scaevola sericea    
Schefflera actinophylla   
Schinus terebinthifolius    
Schoenus nigricans   
Scirpus spp.   
Scirpus californicus   
Scirpus cubensis   
Scirpus cyperinus   
Scirpus erismanae   
Scirpus lineatus   
Scirpus pungens (americanus)   
Scirpus robustus   
Scirpus validus   
Scoparia dulcis   
Senecio glabellus   
Senna pendula   
Sesbania punicea   
Setaria geniculata    
Setaria magna   
Sisyrinchium atlanticum   
Smilax auriculata   
Smilax bona
Smilax tamnoides 
Solanum spp. 
Solanum diphyllum   
Solanum nigrum  
Solanum tampicense   
Solanum torvum    
Solanum viarum   
Sophora tomentosa 
Sorghastrum secundum  
Sorghum halepense   
Sparganium americanum   
Spartina alterniflora  
Spartina bakeri   
Spartina patens   
Spirodela polyrhiza  
Sphenopholis obtusata  
Sporobolus indicus  
Sporobolus pyramidalis   
Swietenia mahagoni   
Syngonanthus flavidulus   
Syngonium podophyllum  
Syzygium cumini   
Syzygium jambos   
Taxodium ascendens   
Taxodium distichum   
Tectaria incisa  
Tetrazygia bicolor   
Thalia geniculata  
Thelypteris spp.  
Thespesia populnea   
Thumbergia alata  
Thumbergia grandiflora   
Tillandsia bartramii   
Tillandsia seteacea   
Toxicodendron radicans   
Tradescantia fluminensis   
Tradescantia ohiensis   
Triadenum spp.
Trichostema dichotomum   
Tripsacum dactyloides  
grass
Typha spp.   
Urena lobata   
Urochloa mutica (Brachiaria mutica)   
Utricularia spp.  
Utricularia purpurea   
Utricularia radiata  
Valeriana scandens   
Vallisneria americana   
Verbena tenuisecta   
Verbesina virginica 
Vernonia gigantea   
Viburnum nudum   
Vigna luteola   
Viola spp.   
Vitis cinerea var. floridana   
Vitis rotundifolia   
Vittaria lineata   
Wedelia triloba   
Wisteria frutescens   
Wisteria sinensis  
Wolffia columbiana   
Wolffiella floridana 
Woodwardia virginica 
Xanthosoma sagittifolium    
Xyris spp.    
Xyris ambigua   
Xyris brevifolia   
Xyris elliottii   
Yucca aloifolia   
Zamia pumila    
Zanthosylum fagara   
Zephyranthes atamasco   
Zizania aquatica   
Zizaniopsis miliaceae   
rosary pea 
earleaf acacia 
sweet flag 
giant leather fern 
red buckeye 
false foxglove
century plant 
mimosa tree 
woman's tongue 
tung oil tree 
yellow allamanda 
false garlic 
Canada garlic 
alligator weed 
giant amaranth 
false indigo 
pepper vine
blue maidencane 
bushy beardgrass 
chalky bluestem 
custard apple 
coral vine 
groundnut 
coral ardesia 
shoebutton ardisia 
marlberry 
green dragon 
switch cane bamboo 
giant cane 
fewflower milkweed 
Florida milkweed 
butterfly weed 
pawpaw 
asparagus fern
common asparagus fern
climbing aster 
black mangrove 
big carpet grass 
common carpet grass 
azolla 
lemon bacopa 
white bacopa 
honeycomb head
orchid tree 
tarflower 
wax begonia 
rattan vine 
bur marigold
marsh beggar tick
cross vine 
bischofia 
swamp fern 
sea oxeye daisy 
 see Urochloa mutica para grass
creeping signal grass 
water shield 
heart offlame
  
fanwort 
gray nicker 
Santa Maria 
trumpet vine 
Canna lilies 
sedges  
green white sedge
waxy sedge 
hop sedge 
stalk grain sedge
love vine 
Australian pine 
spadeleaf  
buttonbush 
Florida rosemary 
coon tail 
water sprite 
  
prickly apple 
day jessamine 
musk grass 
snowberry 
Chinese fringe tree 
camphor tree 
Canada thistle 
possum grape 
orange tree 
saw grass
old man's beard 
leather flower
stinking glory bower
glory tree 
sea grape 
wild taro 
lather leaf 
dayflower 
sticking tree 
tickseed 
swamp lily 
water trumpet 
Florida tree fern 
carrotwood 
Bermuda grass 
foxtail flat sedge    
umbrella flat sedge 
jointed flat sedge 
globe sedge 
variable flat sedge 
yellow cyperus 
sharp edge sedge 
rice flat sedge 
LeConte sedge 
rusty flat sedge 
papyrus 
beach star 
rough flat sedge 
Texas sedge 
  
marsh flat sedge 
September sedge 
swamp loosestrife 
climbing hydrangea
royal poinciana 
beggar weed 
Virginia buttonweed 
air potato 
air potato 
salt grass 
pink sundew 
mixed duckweed 
threeway sedge 
barnyard grass 
coast cockspur grass 
creeping burhead 
waterweed 
water hyacinth 
proliferating spikerush 
road grass, slender spikerush
club rush
creeping spikerush 
yellow spikerush 
pantropic spikerush 
giant spikerush 
small fruit spikerush
sprouting spikerush 
goose grass 
elodea 
night scented orchid
  
scouring rush horsetail 
Elliott love grass 
see Saccharum giganteum 
fleabane 
hard head pipewort
rattlesnake master 
coral bean 
Surinam cherry 
golden fig, strangler fig 
weeping fig  
laurel fig 
  
Carolina fringerush 
chestnut sedge 
  
hurricane grass
pop ash 
cotton grass 
rush 
dwarf umbrella grass
rush fuirena 
common fumitory 
yellow jessamine 
loblolly bay 
  
West Indian tufted airplant 
false rein orchid 
water spider orchid
English ivy 
narrowleaf sunflower 
rayless sunflower 
comfort root 
marsh hibiscus 
hydrilla 
ranae European frogbit
water pennywort 
floating marsh pennywort 
waterleaf 
water pod 
lake hygrophila 
hygrophila 
West Indian marsh grass 
spider lily
shortleaf sandweed 
St. Johns wort
bedstraw St. John's wort
dahoon holly 
dahoon holly 
cogon grass 
water spinach 
tie vine 
blue morning glory
  
pitted morning glory
bigroot morning glory
  
beach morning glory
standing cypress 
paleyellow iris 
blue flag 
northern blue flag 
gold coast jasmine 
Brazilian jasmine 
yellow jasmine 
taper tip rush
soft rush 
shore rush 
large headed rush
needle rush 
sweetheart plant 
sea shore marshmallow
dwarf dandelion 
redroot 
little white bog button 
indigo mushroom 
African elodea 
white mangrove 
lantana 
wild sage 
trailing lantana 
southern cut grass 
small duckweed 
lion's ear 
lead tree 
blazing star 
gopher apple 
Japanese privet 
hedge privet 
eastern grasswort 
pine lily 
frog's bit
limnophila, ambulia 
old field toad flax 
American lipocarpha 
cardinal flower 
lobelia 
Japanese honeysuckle 
coral honeysuckle 
golden crest
primrose 
largeflower primrose willow
sixpetal primrose willow
hairy primrose willow
water purslane
primrose willow
red ludwigia 
headed seedbox 
water grass 
Christmas berry 
Japanese climbing fern 
Old World climbing fern 
purple loosestrife 
cati cat'sclaw vine
zapota 
bog moss 
punktree 
common cat tongue 
Chinaberry tree 
two flower melic grass
natal grass 
Alamo vine 
baby's tears 
climbing hemp weed 
giant sensitive plant 
Florida sensitive 
  
powderpuff 
stalked miterwort 
wild balsam apple 
cheese shrub 
milkweed vine  
gulf muhly grass 
wax myrtle 
parrot feather 
green parrot's feather 
Eurasian water milfoil 
holly leaved water nymph
nandina, heavenly bamboo 
American lotus 
sacred lotus 
fall flowering ixia
giant sword fern 
sword fern, Boston fern 
sword fern 
Burma reed 
spatterdock, cow lily 
hybrid water lily 
fragrant water lily 
yellow water lily 
banana lily 
floating heart 
prickly pear 
golden club 
royal fern 
pink wood sorrel 
water dropwort 
sewer vine 
skunk vine 
screw pine
  
maidencane 
Guinea grass 
torpedo grass 
redtop panicum 
tall swamp panic grass 
switch grass 
Virginia creeper 
Egyptian paspalidium 
Bahia grass 
water paspalum 
Vasey grass 
seashore paspalum 
purple passion flower 
arrow arum 
fountain grass 
elephant grass 
Carolina bay, red bay 
common reed, giant reed 
bamboo 
sand pine 
water lettuce 
bachelor's button 
knotweed, smartweed 
giant smartweed 
rabbit foot grass 
ghost orchid 
pickerelweed 
pondweed 
water thread pondweed 
Illinois pondweed 
longleaf pondweed 
sago pondweed 
mermaid weed
Chickasaw plum 
Mexican flame vine 
arrow bamboo, hardy bamboo 
strawberry guava 
guava 
mock Bishop's weed 
kudzu 
flame vine 
myrtle oak 
sea star 
pale meado beauty 
red mangrove 
Chapman's rhododendron 
downy rose myrtle 
oyster plant 
beakrush 
bunched beakrush 
star rush
pinehill beakrush 
inundated beakrush 
bald rush
Tracey's beakrush 
castor bean 
rouge plant 
black locust tree 
Florida water cress 
cherokee rose 
Britton's wild petunia 
widgeon grass
coastal rose gentian 
largeflower rose gentian 
sugarcane plume 
  
sugar cane 
Indian cupscale grass 
American cupscale grass 
arrowhead 
slender arrowhead 
strapleaf arrowhead 
duck potato 
  
standing water arrowhead 
  
water fern 
giant salvinia 
elderberry 
sansevieria, bowstring hemp 
Chinese tallow 
white vine 
hooded pitcher plant 
lizard's tail
half flower
schefflera 
Brazilian pepper 
black sedge 
bulrush 
giant bulrush 
burhead sedge 
wool grass bulrush
sharp scale bulrush
pendulous bulrush 
three square bulrush
salt marsh bulrush
soft stem bulrush
goatweed 
butterweed 
climbing cassia  
Spanish gold 
knotroot foxtail 
giant foxtail 
eastern blue eyed grass
wild bamboo 
nox cat brier
bristly greenbrier 
nightshade 
twinleaf nightshade 
black nightshade 
wetland night shade 
turkeyberry 
tropical soda apple 
yellow necklace pod 
lopsided Indian grass 
Johnson grass 
bur reed
smooth cord grass 
Baker's cord grass 
marsh hay cord grass
giant duckweed 
prairie wedgescale grass 
smut grass 
West Indian dropseed
West Indian mahogany 
bantam buttons 
nephthytis 
jambolan, java plum 
rose apple 
pond cypress
bald cypress 
incised halberd fern 
tetrazygia, Florida clover ash
alligator flag, fire flag 
maiden fern  
seaside mahoe 
blackeyed susan vine 
sky vine
Bartram's air plant 
needle leaf air plant
poison ivy 
white flowered wandering jew
common spiderwort 
  
forked blue curls
eastern gama grass, Fakahatchee 
  
cat tail
Caesar's weed 
para grass 
bladderwort 
purple bladderwort 
  
valerian 
tape grass 
verbena 
frostweed 
giant ironweed 
possum haw 
vigna 
Florida violet 
Florida pigeon grape 
wild grape 
shoestring fern 
wedelia 
American wisteria 
Chinese wisteria 
water meal 
mud midget
Virginia chain fern 
elephant ear 
yellow eyedgrass
morning yellow eyedgrass
short leaved yelloweyedgrass
Elliott's yellow eyedgrass
yucca 
coontie 
wild lime 
atamasco lily, rainlily
wild rice 
giant cutgrass 
 

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