Carl Ludwig Sprenger was a German botanist, born on 30 November 1846 at Güstrow, Mecklenburg and died 13 December 1917 on the island of Corfu.

Canna flaccida, sometimes referred to as the bandanna of the Everglades, is a species of the Canna genus, a member of the family Cannaceae. The species is indigenous to the wetlands of the south-centr