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|genus=Nymphoides  
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|familia=Menyanthaceae
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|genus=Nymphoides
 
|species=peltatum
 
|species=peltatum
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|taxo_author=(S.G. Gmel.) Kuntze
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|common_name=Fringed Water-lily, Yellow Floating-heart, Water Fringe
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|habit=aquatic
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|lifespan=perennial
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|exposure=sun
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|water=wet
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|features=flowers, invasive, foliage
 
|Temp Metric=°F
 
|Temp Metric=°F
 
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|image=NymphoidesPeltata-flower2-hr.jpg
 
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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.