A tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Pontederia crassipes, commonly known as common water hyacinth is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive outside its native range. Wikipedia

Pontederia crassipes, aquatic plant native to the Amazon basin Wikipedia Disambiguation

Species of plant Wikidata

Floating aquatic plant, Eichhornia crassipes of tropical America, having showy bluish-purple flowers and swollen leafstalks: family Pontederiaceae. It forms dense masses in rivers, ponds, etc., and is a serious pest in the southern U.S., Java, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Africa. OmegaWiki