Index / Search / Elodea nuttallii
§1 Plant
Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H. St. John
vernacular western waterweed — species · Hydrocharitaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Hydrocharitaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Elodea
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 459 counties across 33 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 459 counties across 33 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 N ▾
California view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Boone 17007
- Bureau 17011
- Carroll 17015
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Clark 17023
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Douglas 17041
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hamilton 17065
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kankakee 17091
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- Lawrence 17101
- Lee 17103
- Macoupin 17117
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Moultrie 17139
- Peoria 17143
- Piatt 17147
- Pulaski 17153
- Rock Island 17161
- Schuyler 17169
- Shelby 17173
- St. Clair 17163
- Stephenson 17177
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Vermilion 17183
- White 17193
- Whiteside 17195
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Baraga 26013
- Barry 26015
- Bay 26017
- Cass 26027
- Clinton 26037
- Emmet 26047
- Gogebic 26053
- Houghton 26061
- Ingham 26065
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Livingston 26093
- Mason 26105
- Menominee 26109
- Monroe 26115
- Muskegon 26121
- Newaygo 26123
- Ottawa 26139
- Schoolcraft 26153
- St. Joseph 26149
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
Minnesota view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Benton 27009
- Big Stone 27011
- Blue Earth 27013
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chisago 27025
- Cook 27031
- Crow Wing 27035
- Dakota 27037
- Douglas 27041
- Fillmore 27045
- Freeborn 27047
- Hennepin 27053
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Kanabec 27065
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Mower 27099
- Pine 27115
- Polk 27119
- Ramsey 27123
- Rice 27131
- Scott 27139
- Sherburne 27141
- St. Louis 27137
- Steele 27147
- Wabasha 27157
- Waseca 27161
- Washington 27163
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
Missouri view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Benton 29015
- Bollinger 29017
- Boone 29019
- Butler 29023
- Camden 29029
- Carter 29035
- Clark 29045
- Cole 29051
- Crawford 29055
- Dallas 29059
- Dent 29065
- Douglas 29067
- Dunklin 29069
- Howell 29091
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Laclede 29105
- Madison 29123
- McDonald 29119
- Miller 29131
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Osage 29151
- Ozark 29153
- Phelps 29161
- Pulaski 29169
- Randolph 29175
- Reynolds 29179
- Ripley 29181
- Shannon 29203
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Francois 29187
- St. Louis 29189
- Texas 29215
- Washington 29221
- Wayne 29223
Montana view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Amherst 51009
- Arlington 51013
- Carroll 51035
- Charles City 51036
- Chesterfield 51041
- Clarke 51043
- Cumberland 51049
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Frederick 51069
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Loudoun 51107
- New Kent 51127
- Northampton 51131
- Page 51139
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Westmoreland 51193
Washington view state ↗ 3 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Ashland 55003
- Barron 55005
- Bayfield 55007
- Buffalo 55011
- Burnett 55013
- Chippewa 55017
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Dodge 55027
- Door 55029
- Douglas 55031
- Dunn 55033
- Eau Claire 55035
- Fond du Lac 55039
- Grant 55043
- Iowa 55049
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- La Crosse 55063
- Lincoln 55069
- Marathon 55073
- Marquette 55077
- Menominee 55078
- Oconto 55083
- Outagamie 55087
- Pepin 55091
- Polk 55095
- Portage 55097
- Price 55099
- Racine 55101
- Rock 55105
- Rusk 55107
- Sauk 55111
- Sawyer 55113
- St. Croix 55109
- Taylor 55119
- Trempealeau 55121
- Vernon 55123
- Vilas 55125
- Walworth 55127
- Washburn 55129
- Washington 55131
- Waukesha 55133
- Waupaca 55135
- Waushara 55137
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ELNU2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5329212 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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