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