List of plants known as lotus

Lotus identifies various plant taxa:

Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers
- Nelumbo nucifera, the Sacred or Indian lotus
- Nelumbo lutea, the American or yellow lotus
Certain species of Nymphaea (water lilies or Egyptian lotuses):
- Nymphaea caerulea, also known as blue lotus
- Nymphaea lotus, white lotus or sacred lotus
- Nymphaea nouchali, also known as blue or star lotus (sometimes thought to be the same species as Nymphaea caerulea above)
Lotus (genus) (including bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches), a terrestrial genus with small flowers
Saussurea (snow lotus), a herbaceous species from the Himalayan vicinity
Ziziphus lotus, a shrub species with edible fruit
Diospyros lotus (date-plum, Caucasian persimmon) a tree with edible fruit

See also