Nymphoides peltata
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N. peltata
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| Nymphoides peltata (S.G. Gmel.) Kuntze
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Nymphoides peltata (syn. Villarsia nymphaeoides, fringed water-lily, yellow floatingheart, water fringe) is an aquatic plant of the family Menyanthaceae native to Eurasia. It has cordate floating leaves that support a lax inflorescence of yellow flowers with fringed petal margins. The fruit is a capsule bearing many flattened seeds with stiff marginal hairs.
The plants are commonly sold for use in ornamental water gardens. Outside their native range, however, they can escape cultivation and become nuisance noxious weeds.
Flowers of N. peltata are heterostylous and weakly self-incompatible.
References
External links
Media related to Nymphoides peltata at Wikimedia Commons- Jepson Manual Treatment
- USDA Plants Profile
- Photo gallery
- GLANSIS Species Fact Sheet
