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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Bogbean Family
  7. Floatingheart

genus

Floatingheart

Nymphoides

Traits
Includes
2 native 3 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Water Fringe introduced
  • Water Snowflake present
  • Floatingheart present
  • Little Floatingheart native
  • Big Floatingheart native
  • Yellow Pondlily
  • Crested Floating Heart introduced
  • Nymphoides fallax
  • Crested Floating-heart present
  • Floating Heart
  • Marshwort
  • Nymphoides aurantiaca

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native floatingheart All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Big Floatingheart Nymphoides aquatica caterpillars 3 food 1
  • Little Floatingheart Nymphoides cordata caterpillars 1 food 1

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