Elodea Michx.

Native to:

Alabama, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Arkansas, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, California, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Ecuador, Florida, French Guiana, Guyana, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Suriname, Tennessee, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Introduced into:

Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central European Russia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Free State, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Hawaii, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Morocco, Netherlands, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northern Territory, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Romania, Society Is., South Australia, South Carolina, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tasmania, Texas, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Victoria, West Siberia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yakutiya

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.