Potamogeton × spathuliformis
Shining Pondweed
Potamogeton lucens
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- Botanical name
- Potamogeton lucens
- Also known as
- Shining Pondweed
- Family
- Potamogetonaceae
- Genus
- Potamogeton
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Shining Pondweed
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Potamogeton lucens but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Buccaferrea lucida
Potamogeton acuminatus
Potamogeton americanus
Potamogeton angustifolius
Potamogeton caudatus
Potamogeton corniculatus
Potamogeton cornutus
Potamogeton gaudichaudii
Potamogeton gramineus subsp. zizii
Potamogeton lanceolatus
Potamogeton lindenbergii
Potamogeton longifolius
Potamogeton lucens f. acuminatus
Potamogeton lucens f. excelsus
Potamogeton lucens f. insignis
Potamogeton lucens f. lancifolius
Potamogeton lucens f. longifolius
Potamogeton lucens f. macrophyllus
Potamogeton lucens f. ovalifolius
Potamogeton lucens subsp. longifolius
Potamogeton lucens subsp. macrophyllus
Potamogeton lucens subsp. sinicus
Potamogeton lucens subsp. vaginans
Potamogeton lucens subsp. zizii
Potamogeton lucens subvar. insignis
Potamogeton lucens var. acuminatus
Potamogeton lucens var. angustifolius
Potamogeton lucens var. corniculatus
Potamogeton lucens var. cornutus
Potamogeton lucens var. diversifolius
Potamogeton lucens var. fluitans
Potamogeton lucens var. fluviatilis
Potamogeton lucens var. insignis
Potamogeton lucens var. lancifolius
Potamogeton lucens var. longifolius
Potamogeton lucens var. longifolius
Potamogeton lucens var. longifolius
Potamogeton lucens var. mucronatus
Potamogeton lucens var. nudus
Potamogeton lucens var. ovalifolius
Potamogeton lucens var. rotundifolius
Potamogeton lucens var. zizii
Potamogeton lucidus
Potamogeton macrophyllus
Potamogeton nitens
Potamogeton proteus
Potamogeton proteus unranked lucens
Potamogeton proteus unranked zizii
Potamogeton pseudolongifolius
Potamogeton rotundifolius
Potamogeton sinicus
Potamogeton vaginans
Potamogeton volhynicus
Potamogeton zizii
Potamogeton zizii
Potamogeton zizii f. pulcherrimus
Potamogeton zizii f. validus
Potamogeton zizii var. validus
Spirillus lucens
Spirillus zizii
Others in Potamogeton
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