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Red Least Water Lily

Nuphar oguraensis

Red Least Water Lily
Photo: TUBS, CC BY-SA 3.0

Red Least Water Lily is a small rhizomatous aquatic plant from central and southern Japan, grown in ponds and water gardens. It needs still or slow water with full sun to thrive.

Family
Nymphaeaceae (Water-lily family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the roots submerged in still or slow-moving water at all times.
Soil
Heavy pond soil or aquatic planting clay, placed in a basket and sunk to a shallow depth.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates; protect from hard freezing of the pond base when grown in containers.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SC. & S. Japan
Climate
temperate

About

Nuphar oguraensis is a species of rhizomatous aquatic plant endemic to Japan.

Other Nuphar plants

Spatter Dock · East Asian Yellow Water Lily · Yellow Water-lily · Small Yellow Pond Lily · Yellow Pond Lily · Broad Leaved Pond Lily · Rocky Mountain Cow Lily · Nuphar pumila subsp. sinensis · Least Water-lily · Red Pond Lily · Cape Fear Spatterdock · Nuphar saijoensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nuphar oguraensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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