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