
Aroids, Water Plantains, Seagrass, and allies
Alismatales
The Alismatales (alismatids) are an order of flowering plants including about 4500 species. Plants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic. Some grow in fresh water, some in marine habitats.
14 branches of this order, most-observed first

Arum Family
familyAraceae

Water-Plantain family
familyAlismataceae

pondweed family
familyPotamogetonaceae

tape-grass family
familyHydrocharitaceae

Seagrasses
familyZosteraceae

Arrowgrass family
familyJuncaginaceae

flowering-rush family
familyButomaceae

tofieldia family
familyTofieldiaceae

posidonia family
familyPosidoniaceae

manatee-grass family
familyCymodoceaceae

Pod-grass family
familyScheuchzeriaceae
aponogeton family
familyAponogetonaceae

widgeonweed family
familyRuppiaceae

maundia family
familyMaundiaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Alismatales in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48073.