Nymphoides peltatum

Plant Characteristics

Habit		aquatic
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	sun
Water:	◍	wet
Features:	✓	flowers, invasive, foliage

Scientific Names

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Nymphoides peltata (syn. Villarsia nymphaeoides, Fringed Water-lily, Yellow Floating-heart, 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.

Read about Nymphoides peltatum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Nymphoides peltatum, Brit. & Rend. (N. nymphaeoides, Brit. Limnanthemum nymphaeoides, Hoffm. & Link. Menyanthes nymphaeoides, Linn.). Plant stout and branching: Lvs. 2-4 in. broad: fls. 1 in. across or more; segms. obcordate, short-fringed. May-July. Eu., Asia; naturalized in District of Columbia.—Simulates Limnocharis Humboldtii in habit. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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