Aquatic Plants List
Aquatic plant names with images will help you identify floating, submerged and shoreline species. Compare plants found in ponds and other wet habitats. Page 2 of 3.
parrot pitcherplant
Sarracenia psittacina
Pondo Bladderwort
Utricularia sandersonii
Irish moss
Chondrus crispus
bubble algae
Valonia ventricosa
sacred lotus
Nelumbo nucifera
buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Amazon water lily
Victoria amazonica
purple iris
Iris versicolor
Asian rice
Oryza sativa
sweet flag
Acorus calamus
orange balsam
Impatiens capensis
turkey tangle fogfruit
Phyla nodiflora
Marsh-marigold
Caltha palustris
Bulrush
Typha latifolia
Purple-loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
Common Reed
Phragmites australis
pickerelweed
Pontederia cordata
Canadian waterweed
Elodea canadensis
broadleaf arrowhead
Sagittaria latifolia
common water hyacinth
Pontederia crassipes
Bald cypress
Taxodium distichum
common duckweed
Lemna minor
American lotus
Nelumbo lutea
Allegheny monkeyflower
Mimulus ringens
Virginia iris
Iris virginica
American white waterlily
Nymphaea odorata
skunk cabbage
Symplocarpus foetidus
halberdleaf rosemallow
Hibiscus laevis
water fern
Azolla filiculoides
Java fern
Leptochilus pteropus
yerba mansa
Anemopsis californica
pond apple
Annona glabra
Eelgrass
Zostera marina
annual wildrice
Zizania aquatica
glasswort
Salicornia europaea
pink sundew
Drosera capillaris
swamp morning-glory
Ipomoea aquatica
spoonleaf sundew
Drosera intermedia
Burk's southern pitcher plant
Sarracenia rosea
Cladophora Ball
Aegagropila linnaei
sessile joyweed
Alternanthera sessilis
yellow velvetleaf
Limnocharis flava
Java waterdropwort
Oenanthe javanica
golden leatherfern
Acrostichum aureum
American water plantain
Alisma subcordatum
alligatorweed
Alternanthera philoxeroides
watermelon snow
Chlamydomonas nivalis
prickly seaweed
Acanthophora spicifera
inland leatherfern
Acrostichum danaeifolium
Elephant Ear
Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic'
Plymouth rose gentian
Sabatia kennedyana
broadfruit bur-reed
Sparganium eurycarpum
Common butterwort
Pinguicula vulgaris
water hickory
Carya aquatica
valley redstem
Ammannia coccinea
Holy Mangrove
Acanthus ilicifolius
apple mangrove
Sonneratia caseolaris
Small Cranberry
Vaccinium oxycoccos
waterwheel plant
Aldrovanda vesiculosa
California butterwort
Pinguicula macroceras