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§1 Plant

Eichhornia azurea (Sw.) Kunth

vernacular anchored water hyacinth — species · Pontederiaceae

USDA
EIAZ2
GBIF
7494501 syn.
Rank
species
anchored water hyacinth (Eichhornia azurea)
Platephotograph · Jonathan HiewCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Pontederiaceae Kunth
Genus
Eichhornia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 2 counties across 2 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 2 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 2 counties across 2 states/territories.

Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/EIAZ2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7494501 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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