This lifeform is found widely in Africa. This lifeform is found in south Asia. This lifeform is found widely in the Indo-Australian region. This lifeform is found in the SE USA (Georgia, Alabama, and Florida). This lifeform is found widely in the New World tropics. The blue color will help identify this lifeform. This lifeform is generally found in lakes. This lifeform is common in suitable environments.

Hyacinth (Piaropus crassipes to Eichhornia crassipes) originated in tropical South America. This aggressive floating plant has spread to most of the warmer areas of the world. This species has become a serious problem in Florida. It becomes so abundant that it clogs rivers, ponds, and small lakes and prevents boat traffic and fishing. Furthermore, it blocks out light needed for the health of the water.

Eichornia genus (water hyacinth) originated in tropical South America, but many species have spread to suitable habitat the world over.  There are seven perennial aquatic herbs in this genus.   Three species are established in greater North America.

Pickerel weeds (Family Pontederiaceae) are a group of aquatic plants, including many floating species. There are over 30 species in this family arranged in about seven genera. There are 13 species in four different genera now growing in greater North America, including Hawaii, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Farinosa Order is a collection of many different small families of such diverse nature that sufficient arguments exist to treat some of them as full orders.

Monocots are a large group of plants usually characterized by having leaves with parallel veins and a seed with a single shell. Most flowers are created with multiples of three. In  the older botany texts, the Monocots were considered more primitive than the Dicots. However, many recent authors have placed the Monocots as an offshoot of the primitive Dicots. Here they are placed before the Dicots.

Seed plants (Phylum Embryophyta) are generally grouped into one large phylum containing three major classes: the Gymnosperms, the Monocots, and the Dicots. (Some scientists separate the Gymnosperms into a separate phylum and refer to the remaining plants as flowering plants or Angiospermae.)

For North American counts of the number of species in each genus and family, the primary reference has been John T. Kartesz, author of A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland (1994). The geographical scope of his lists include, as part of greater North America, Hawaii, Alaska, Greenland, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Kartesz lists 21,757 species of vascular plants comprising the ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants as being found in greater North America (including Alaska, Hawaii, Greenland, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).

There are estimates within the scientific world that about half of the listed North American seed plants were originally native with the balance being comprised of Eurasian and tropical plants that have become established.

Plant kingdom contains a large variety of different organisms including mosses, ferns, and seed plants. Most plants manufacture their energy from sunlight and water. Identification of many species is difficult in that most individual plants have characteristics that have variables based on soil moisture, soil chemistry, and sunlight.

Because of the difficulty in learning and identifying different plant groups, specialists have emerged that study only a limited group of plants. These specialists revise the taxonomy and give us detailed descriptions and ranges of the various species.  Their results are published in technical journals and written with highly specialized words that apply to a specific group.

On the other hand, there are the nature publishers. These people and companies undertake the challenging task of trying to provide easy to use pictures and descriptions to identify those species.