Index / Search / Pistia stratiotes
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Araceae Juss.
- Genus
- Pistia
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 84 counties across 12 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 84 counties across 12 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Duval 12031
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Evangeline 22039
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PIST2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2870583 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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