hydrophyte

/ˌhaɪdrəˈfaɪt/

Other forms: hydrophytes

Definitions of hydrophyte

1. noun

   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
   synonyms: aquatic plant, hydrophytic plant, water plant

   types:

   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

   Orontium aquaticum, golden club

   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 stratiotes, Pistia stratoites, pistia, 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

   Subularia aquatica, awlwort

   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

   Menyanthes trifoliata, bog myrtle, bogbean, buckbean, marsh trefoil, 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

   Pontederia cordata, pickerel weed, pickerelweed, 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

   Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, frog's-bit, frogbit

   European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers

   Hydrilla verticillata, hydrilla

   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

   Vallisneria spiralis, eelgrass, tape grass, 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

   Zostera marina, eelgrass, grass wrack, sea wrack

   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

   Nymphaea odorata, fragrant water lily, pond lily, water nymph

   a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regions

   European white lily, Nymphaea alba

   a water lily with white flowers

   Egyptian water lily, Nymphaea lotus, lotus, white lily, white lotus

   white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians

   Nymphaea caerulea, blue lotus

   blue Egyptian lotus: held sacred by the Egyptians

   Nymphaea stellata, blue lotus

   blue lotus of India and southeastern Asia

   Nuphar advena, cow lily, spatterdock, yellow pond lily

   common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water

   Nuphar sagittifolium, southern spatterdock

   of flowing waters of the southeastern United States; may form obstructive mats in streams

   Nuphar lutea, yellow water lily

   a water lily with yellow flowers

   Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, lotus, sacred lotus

   native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers

   American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, water chinquapin, yanquapin

   water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds

   Cabomba caroliniana, fanwort, water-shield

   common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers

   Brasenia schreberi, water-shield, water-target

   aquatic plant with floating oval leaves and purple flowers; in lakes and slow-moving streams; suitable for aquariums

   Ranunculus flammula, lesser spearwort

   semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealand

   Ranunculus lingua, greater spearwort

   semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears

   Caltha palustris, May blob, cowslip, kingcup, marsh marigold, meadow bright, water dragon

   swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups

   rush

   grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems

   Acorus calamus, calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag

   perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots

   Calla palustris, water arum, wild calla

   plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries

   Lysichiton americanum, skunk cabbage

   clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe

   Peltandra virginica, green arrow arum, tuckahoe

   perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries

   Symplocarpus foetidus, foetid pothos, polecat weed, skunk cabbage

   deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe

   Lemna minor, common duckweed, lesser duckweed

   of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia

   Lemna trisulca, star-duckweed

   cosmopolitan in temperate regions except North America

   Spirodela polyrrhiza, great duckweed, water flaxseed

   cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands

   watermeal

   any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world

   Wolffiella gladiata, bogmat, mud midget

   having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America

   iva, marsh elder

   any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America

   American featherfoil, Hottonia inflata, water gillyflower

   a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers

   Hottonia palustris, water violet

   featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers

   Samolus valerandii, brookweed

   water pimpernel of Europe to China

   Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus, brookweed

   American water pimpernel

   sedge

   grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers

   cattail

   tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes

   sabbatia

   any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes

   Jesuits' nut, Trapa natans, water caltrop

   a variety of water chestnut

   Trapa bicornis, ling, ling ko

   water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs

   yellow-eyed grass

   any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States

   Alisma plantago-aquatica, water plantain

   marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leaves

   Canadian pondweed, Elodea canadensis

   North American waterweed; widely naturalized in Europe

   Egeria densa, Elodea densa, dense-leaved elodea

   aquatic plant with deep green foliage useful to oxygenate an aquarium; sometimes placed in genus Egeria

   Potamogeton crispus, curled leaf pondweed, curly pondweed

   European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California

   Potamogeton gramineous, variously-leaved pondweed

   of Europe (except the Mediterranean area) and the northern United States

   Potamogeton americanus, Potamogeton nodosus, loddon pondweed

   pondweed with floating leaves; of northern United States and Europe

   frog's lettuce

   very similar to Potamogeton; of western Africa, Asia, and Europe

   Triglochin maritima, arrow grass

   tufted perennial found in shallow water or marshland; sometimes poisons livestock

   Zannichellia palustris, horned pondweed

   found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful to oxygenate cool water ponds and aquaria

   Chrysosplenium americanum, water carpet, water mat

   aquatic herb with yellowish flowers; central and western United States

   grass-of-Parnassus, parnassia

   any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup

   Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead

   showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple

   American brooklime, Veronica americana, brooklime

   plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers

   European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga, brooklime

   European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America

   Sium suave, water parsnip

   stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia

   Sium latifolium, greater water parsnip

   large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; Europe

   Sium sisarum, skirret

   an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root

   Saururus cernuus, lizard's-tail, swamp lily, water dragon

   North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers

   type of:

   tracheophyte, vascular plant

   green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms