Potamogeton vaseyi is a species of flowering plant in the pondweed family Potamogetonaceae.

The specific epithet vaseyi honors the American botanist George S. Vasey.

Potamogeton vaseyi was named and described by the American botanist James Watson Robbins in 1867.

[2] The type specimen was collected by Dr. George Vasey near Ringwood in McHenry County, Illinois.

[1] It is listed as an endangered species in Indiana, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania,[7] and is listed as threatened in Connecticut,[8] Maine, Michigan, and New Hampshire, and as presumed extirpated in Ohio.