European White Waterlily
తెల్ల కలువ
Nymphaea alba L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- —
- wide
- 1.5 m
Nymphaeaceae
Also called European White Water-Lily, White Water-lily, European Water-lily, White Waterlily, European white waterlily
Formerly Leuconymphaea alba
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous hydrogeophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to W. Himalaya, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Spread
- 1.5 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1–1.5 m; Wikipedia 150–150 cm
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: height, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Nenúfar europeo blanco, Nenúfar blanco europeo
- German
- Weiße Seerose, Weisse Seerose
- French
- Nénuphar blanc, Nénufar blanc, nénuphar blanc
- Czech
- leknín bílý
- Danish
- Hvid åkande, Hvid Nøkkerose
- Dutch
- Witte waterlelie, witte waterlelie
- Swedish
- Vit näckros, sydnäckros
- Russian
- Кувшинка белая
- Estonian
- valge vesiroos, Valge vesiroos
- Hebrew
- נימפאה לבנה
- Norwegian Bokmål
- hvit nøkkerose, Hvit nøkkerose
- Lithuanian
- Paprastoji vandens lelija
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Nymphaea alba (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.