Common Name: WATERLILY FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb, aquatic, rhizomed, stoloned or not; herbage with air chambers. Leaf: alternate, from rhizome; blades floating, submersed, or +- emergent, << petiole, +- deeply notched at base into 2 lobes [peltate]. Inflorescence: 1-flowered, axillary; peduncle long. Flower: bisexual, generally on or above water; sepals 4--14, free, petal-like or not; petals many [(0)], stamen-like or not; stamens many, attached to receptacle or ovary side, filaments generally wide; ovary compound, superior to inferior, chambers 3--many, many-ovuled, stigmas in radiating lines on stigmatic disk. Fruit: berry-like, +- dehiscent or not, spongy. Genera In Family: 5 genera, +- 70 species: +- worldwide. eFlora Treatment Author: John H. Wiersema Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: WATERLILY, WATER-NYMPH Habit: Rhizomes prostrate to erect, branched or not, stoloned or not. Leaf: blade generally floating, elliptic to round, basal lobes generally +- acute. Flower: sepals < petals, +- green; petals 8--many, white, +- red, [blue], or yellow; stamens many, attached to ovary side, erect to ascending at dehiscence, outer filaments flat, petal-like or not, inner linear; ovary < stamens. Seed: +- spheric to elliptic, arilled. Etymology: (Greek: water nymph) Note: Plants of both California taxa problematic weeds in waterways. Reference: Woods et al. 2005 Syst Bot 30:471--480
Nymphaea odorata Aiton
NATURALIZED Habit: Rhizome prostrate, branched or not. Leaf: blade 5--25 cm wide, +- round. Flower: 6--19 cm wide, floating; sepals, petals lanceolate to ovate; petals 17--43; outer stamens generally 3--4 mm, inner anthers 7--12 mm; styles generally 20. Fruit: 2.5--3 cm, depressed-spheric. Seed: 1.5--2.5 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=56,84. Ecology: Quiet waters, ponds, edges of lakes; Elevation: generally < 2700 m. Bioregional Distribution: CaRF, n SNF, SNH (Lake Tahoe), ScV (Butte Co.), SnGb, expected elsewhere; Distribution Outside California: native to eastern North America. Cultivated widely for ornament. Flowering Time: Apr--Aug Note: Plants in western United States introduced, but available material +- unassignable to subsp. (2 recognized in FNANM; California plants mentioned under Nymphaea odorata subsp. odorata). Jepson eFlora Author: John H. Wiersema Reference: Woods et al. 2005 Syst Bot 30:471--480 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Noxious Weed listed on the CDFA Weed Pest Ratings table View the CDFA Pest Rating page for Nymphaea odorata Weed listed by Cal-IPC Previous taxon: Nymphaea mexicana Next taxon: Aristolochiaceae
Citation for this treatment: John H. Wiersema 2012, Nymphaea odorata, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=34798, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Nymphaea odorata:
CaRF, n SNF, SNH (Lake Tahoe), ScV (Butte Co.), SnGb, expected elsewhere
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