| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elatinaceae | Bergia | Water-fire, Bergia |  (c) Keesling, Jim - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Elatinaceae | Bergia texana | Texas Bergia | Swamps, marshes, muddy areas, pondshores, streambanks, playas. | Illinois, Missouri, CD, Montana, Idaho, and Washington south to Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, California, and n. Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas). |  (c) Keesling, Jim - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Elatinaceae | Elatinaceae | Waterwort Family |  (c) Keesling, Jim - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Elatinaceae | Elatine | Waterwort |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Elatinaceae | Elatine ambigua | Asian Waterwort | Ponds, marshes. | Native of s. and se. Asia. |  (c) 陳子玄 - CC-BY-NC |
| Elatinaceae | Elatine americana | American Waterwort | Tidal flats, lakes. | Widespread in ne. United States, s. to North Carolina and Missouri. The only known site for this species in North Carolina is an artificial lake; it is uncertain whether it should be considered native or introduced. |  (c) Harris, Allan - CC0 |
| Elatinaceae | Elatine brachysperma | Shortseed Waterwort | Mud or shallow water. | Widely scattered in North America south to c. Mexico; Central America; South America. It has been reported for nc. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988). |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Elatinaceae | Elatine heterandra | Wet mud of temporary pools. | S. Texas, nw. New Mexico, and California. | ||
| Elatinaceae | Elatine minima | Tiny Waterwort | Tidal flats, lakes, mud flats, pools on granite flatrocks. | First found in North Carolina in 1990, E. minima is widespread in ne. United States, south to Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina (Horn, pers. comm., 2004). The only known site for this species in North Carolina is the spillway of an artificial lake (Lake Butner, Granville County); it is uncertain whether it should be considered native or exotic in North Carolina. It may have been introduced by waterfowl or humans. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Elatinaceae | Elatine rubella | Three-stamen Waterwort | Ponds. | Sometimes reported for our region, but all reports apparently based on misidentifications. | |
| Elatinaceae | Elatine triandra | Three-stamened Waterwort | Shores, pools. | Apparently native of e. and se. Asia, but the native distributions of the cryptic and under-documented species of Elatine makes interpretation difficult. |  (c) Васильев, Игорь - CC-BY |