Index / Search / Hydrilla verticillata
§1 Plant
Hydrilla verticillata (L. f.) Royle
vernacular waterthyme — species · Hydrocharitaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Hydrocharitaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Hydrilla
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 67 counties across 16 states/territories§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 67 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Broward 12011
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Duval 12031
- Franklin 12037
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Hendry 12051
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HYVE3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5329570 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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