water plant

1. A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth (synset 113142303)
   is a type of: tracheophyte, vascular plant - green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
   subtypes:

   • hornwort - any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams
   • water lily - an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae
   • ranunculus aquatilis, water buttercup, water crowfoot - plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America
   • cryptocoryne, water trumpet - any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia
   • golden club, orontium aquaticum - aquatic plant of the southeastern United States having blue-green leaves and a spadix resembling a club covered with tiny yellow flowers
   • arrow arum - an aquatic plant of the genus Peltandra; North America
   • pistia, pistia stratiotes, pistia stratoites, water cabbage, water lettuce - pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
   • duckweed - any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds
   • awlwort, subularia aquatica - small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal
   • feather-foil, featherfoil - a plant of the genus Hottonia
   • water pimpernel - a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus
   • water milfoil - an aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers
   • caltrop, water chestnut, water chestnut plant - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
   • bog myrtle, bogbean, buckbean, marsh trefoil, menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock - perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface
   • eriocaulon aquaticum, pipewort - aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers
   • pickerel weed, pickerelweed, pontederia cordata, wampee - American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
   • eichhornia crassipes, eichhornia spesiosa, water hyacinth, water orchid - a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States
   • heteranthera dubia, mud plantain, water star grass - grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms
   • naiad, water nymph - submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water
   • frog's-bit, frogbit, hydrocharis morsus-ranae - European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers
   • hydrilla, hydrilla verticillata - submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida's waterways
   • american frogbit, limnodium spongia - American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches
   • waterweed - a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea
   • eelgrass, tape grass, vallisneria spiralis, wild celery - submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia
   • pondweed - any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae
   • eelgrass, grass wrack, sea wrack, zostera marina - submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
   • water starwort - any of several aquatic plants having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves; America, Europe and Asia
   • golden saxifrage, golden spleen - any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium
   • veronica anagallis-aquatica, veronica michauxii, water speedwell - plant of wet places in Eurasia and America
   • bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant - a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath
   has: pad - the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)
   same as: aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant

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