Hydrocharis L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 1036 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Cosmopolitan.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Algeria, Altay, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Central European Russia, Chile Central, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East European Russia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Florida, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Hungary, Illinois, India, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Manchuria, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Morocco, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Netherlands, New Guinea, New York, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Oklahoma, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Romania, South Carolina, South European Russia, Spain, Sulawesi, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

California, Iran, Michigan, New Jersey, New South Wales, Ontario, Queensland, Québec, Vermont, Western Australia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Sources

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0