Species profile—Pistia stratiotes (water lettuce)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Araceae → Pistia stratiotes (water lettuce)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Araceae
- Scientific name
- Pistia stratiotes L.
- Common name
- water lettuce
- WildNet taxon ID
- 16456
- Alternate name(s)
- Nile cabbage
water lily - Biosecurity Act 2014 (BIO) status
- Restricted Matter
- Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Environmental Weed
Other resources
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=16456
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.