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Entire Marshwort

Nymphoides geminata

Also called Marshwort

Entire Marshwort
Photo: Margaret Donald, CC BY-SA 2.0

Entire marshwort is an aquatic hydroperennial of the Menyanthaceae family, native to eastern Australia, that grows in shallow water and wet margins. It needs constantly moist or submerged roots and a sunny, open spot.

Family
Menyanthaceae (Menyanth family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep roots submerged or in constantly wet mud; do not let the root zone dry out.
Soil
Wet mud or heavy loam at the bottom of a pond or bog garden.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect below 5 °C as it is a subtropical species.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Nymphoides geminata, commonly known as entire marshwort, is an aquatic plant of the family Menyanthaceae native to eastern Australia.

It was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 as Villarsia geminata, but was transferred to the genus Nymphoides by Otto Kuntze in 1891.

Other Nymphoides plants

Big floatingheart · Nymphoides balakrishnanii · Wavy Marshwort · Crested Floating Heart · Water snowflake · Nymphoides montana · Fringed Water-lily · Nymphoides spinulosperma

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nymphoides geminata 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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