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