Alisma plantago-aquatica L.

English: European water plantain

German: Gemeiner Froschlöffel

Mandarin: 泽泻 (ze xie)

Portuguese: Alface-dos-arrozais, Colhereiro

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Alismatales (9)

        Family: Alismataceae (4)(family description)

          Genus: Alisma (2)

            Epithet: plantago-aquatica L. (1)

plantago-aquatica => earlier name for A. plantago-aquatica in reference to the similarity of the leaves with Plantago major and its aquatic habitat

Climate: temperate

Habitat: hydrophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

Check for Alisma plantago-aquatica at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [17] Carl Axel Magnus Lindman: Bilder ur Nordens Flora - Kurt Stüber Library of online books
• [448] Alisma plantago-aquatica - Plants For A Future database
• [1639] Alisma plantago-aquatica - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.