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Nymphaeaceae (/ ˌ n ɪ m f i ˈ eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /) is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world.
Nymphaea (/ n ɪ m ˈ f iː ə /) is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants, and many cultivars have been bred. Some taxa occur as introduced species where they are not native, [3] and some are weeds. [4]
Its species have small, [3] erect, [4] [6] cylindric, unbranched rhizomes lacking stolons. [4] Both floating and submerged leaves are produced. [4] The obovate to oval, [7] glabrous, petiolate leaves [4] with an entire margin [4] [7] have glabrous petioles [4] with two primary air canals.
Nuphar lutea, the yellow water-lily, brandy-bottle, or spadderdock, is an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae, native to northern temperate and some subtropical regions of Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia.
This aquatic plant is native in a broad region from Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, to Taiwan, southeast Asia and Australia. [2] [3] It has been long valued as a garden flower in Thailand and Myanmar to decorate ponds and gardens. In its natural state, N. nouchali is found in static or slow-flowing aquatic habitats of low to moderate depth.
Nymphaea alba, the white waterlily, European white water lily or white nenuphar / ˈ n ɛ nj ʊ f ɑːr /, is an aquatic flowering plant in the family Nymphaeaceae. [5] [6] [7] It is native to North Africa, temperate Asia, Europe and tropical Asia (Jammu and Kashmir).
In North America and Europe it native range is restricted to the boreal regions above 50° N latitude. [12] Nymphaea tetragona inhabits ponds, lakes, and quiet streams; [5] and it is native to the region spanning from North Europe to Korea and Himalaya, and Subarctic America to Northwest USA. [2]
Nymphaea ampla, the dotleaf waterlily, is a species of flowering plant in the family Nymphaeaceae. [2] It is native to Texas, Florida, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern and western South America. [1]