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−|genus=Nymphoides
+|familia=Menyanthaceae
+|genus=Nymphoides
|species=peltatum
|species=peltatum
+|taxo_author=(S.G. Gmel.) Kuntze
+|common_name=Fringed Water-lily, Yellow Floating-heart, Water Fringe
+|habit=aquatic
+|lifespan=perennial
+|exposure=sun
+|water=wet
+|features=flowers, invasive, foliage
|Temp Metric=°F
|Temp Metric=°F
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+|image=NymphoidesPeltata-flower2-hr.jpg
|image_width=240
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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 [[flower]]s with fringed petal margins. The fruit is a [[capsule (fruit)|capsule]] bearing many flattened seeds with stiff marginal hairs.
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+The plants are commonly sold for use in ornamental water gardens. Outside their native range, however, they can escape cultivation and become nuisance [[noxious weed]]s.
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+Flowers of ''N. peltata'' are [[heterostyly|heterostylous]] and weakly [[self-incompatibility in plants|self-incompatible]].
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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.
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.