Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Pygmy Water Lily

Nymphaea pygmaea

Also called Small White Water Lily, Northern Small White Water Lily, Pygmy Waterlily

Pygmy Water Lily
Photo: Hooker, William; Salisbury, R. A.; Shury, D. N., Public domain
Family
Nymphaeaceae (Water-lily family)
Grows as
Aquatic, Perennial
Water
Likes moisture

About

Nymphaea pygmaea is a controversial species of perennial, aquatic herb in the family Nymphaeaceae native to Asia.

Other Nymphaea plants

Nymphaea abhayana · White Water Lily · White Water-lily · Nymphaea alexii · Amazon waterlily · Dotleaf waterlily · Nymphaea atrans · Nymphaea belophylla · Nymphaea caatingae · White Water Lily · Nymphaea carpentariae · Nymphaea nouchali var. zanzibariensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nymphaea pygmaea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…