List of plants known as lotus
# 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
