Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 46 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | ALA | NORTHERN AMERICA |
| Arizona | ARI | |
| Arkansas | ARK | |
| California | CAL | |
| Colorado | COL | |
| Connecticut | CNT | |
| Delaware | DEL | |
| Florida | FLA | |
| Georgia | GEO | |
| Idaho | IDA | |
| Illinois | ILL | |
| Indiana | INI | |
| Iowa | IOW | |
| Kansas | KAN | |
| Kentucky | KTY | |
| Louisiana | LOU | |
| Maryland | MRY | |
| Massachusetts | MAS | |
| Mexico Northeast | MXE | |
| Mexico Northwest | MXN | |
| Mexico Southwest | MXS | |
| Minnesota | MIN | |
| Mississippi | MSI | |
| Missouri | MSO | |
| Montana | MNT | |
| Nebraska | NEB | |
| Nevada | NEV | |
| New Jersey | NWJ | |
| New Mexico | NWM | |
| New York | NWY | |
| North Carolina | NCA | |
| North Dakota | NDA | |
| Ohio | OHI | |
| Oklahoma | OKL | |
| Oregon | ORE | |
| Pennsylvania | PEN | |
| South Carolina | SCA | |
| South Dakota | SDA | |
| Tennessee | TEN | |
| Texas | TEX | |
| Vermont | VER | |
| Virginia | VRG | |
| West Virginia | WVA | |
| Wisconsin | WIS | |
| Wyoming | WYO | |
| Cuba | CUB | SOUTHERN AMERICA |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 132 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -7.7 °C | 0.4 °C | 7.2 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 25.9 °C | 31.0 °C | 34.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 498 mm | 1,256 mm | 1,602 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 38 mm | 256 mm | 330 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 132 research-grade observations of Potamogeton diversifolius that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 14 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Potamogeton capillaceus Poir.
- Potamogeton capillaceus var. atripes Fernald
- Potamogeton conjungens Hagstr.
- Potamogeton dimorphoides Hagstr.
- Potamogeton diversifolius f. limosus Hagstr.
- Potamogeton diversifolius var. capitatus Engelm.
- Potamogeton diversifolius var. diversifolius
- Potamogeton diversifolius var. multi-denticulatus Morong
- Potamogeton diversifolius var. spicatus Engelm.
- Potamogeton hybridus var. multi-denticulatus (Morong) Graebn.
- Potamogeton hybridus var. spicatus (Engelm.) J.W.Robbins
- Potamogeton porcatus Muhl.
- Potamogeton zetterstedtii Wallman
- Spirillus diversifolius (Raf.) Nieuwl.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.