The open plant encyclopedia
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.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Nymphoides
Nymphoides, or floatingheart, is a genus of aquatic flowering plants in the family Menyanthaceae. The genus name refers to their resemblance to the water lily Nymphaea. Nymphoides are aquatic plants with submerged roots and floating leaves that hold the small flowers above the water surface. Flowers are sympetalous, most often divided into five lobes (petals). The petals are either yellow or white and may be adorned with lateral wings or covered in small hairs. The inflorescence consists of either an umbellate cluster of flowers or a lax raceme, with internodes occurring between generally paired flowers.
Species of Nymphoides are sold as aquarium plants, including the "banana plant", N. aquatica and the "water snowflake", N. indica. Species native to the United States are N. cordata in the northeast and N. aquatica in the southeast.
Big floatingheart · Nymphoides balakrishnanii · Little floatingheart · Wavy Marshwort · Entire Marshwort · Crested Floating Heart · Water snowflake · Nymphoides macrosperma · Nymphoides montana · Nymphoides parvifolia · Fringed Water-lily · Nymphoides sivarajanii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nymphoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
