List of plants known as lotus

flower of Nelumbo nucifera at Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia.
flower of Nelumbo nucifera at Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia.

Lotus identifies various plant taxa:

  • Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers
  • Certain species of Nymphaea (water lilies or Egyptian lotuses):
  • 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