American white waterlily
குவளை
Nymphaea odorata Aiton
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- —
- wide
- 1.2 m
Nymphaeaceae
Also called Fragrant water lily, Common water-lily, American white water-lily, Fragrant waterlily
Formerly Castalia odorata, Leuconymphaea odorata
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
- C. & E. Canada to Niacaragua, Bahamas, CubaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and Chicago Botanic Garden, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS full; Chicago Botanic Garden full, part
- Spread
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from RHS and Chicago Botanic Garden, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from RHS and Chicago Botanic Garden, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS white; Chicago Botanic Garden pink, red, white
- Coldest it survives
- -27.5 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from RHS and Chicago Botanic Garden, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -15 °C; Chicago Botanic Garden -40 °C
Not known yet: height, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Apapatla, Ninfa blanca
- root
- NYMODO, mahkohpena
- Ojibwa
- anungobikobiise
- Estonian
- lõhnav vesiroos
- Russian
- Кувшинка душистая
- Japanese
- ニオイスイレン
- Chinese (China)
- 香睡莲
- Chinese
- 香睡蓮, 香睡莲
- French
- nymphéa odorant
- German
- Wohlriechende Seerose
- Korean
- 미국수련
- Slovak
- lekno voňavé
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Chicago Botanic Garden, 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 odorata (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.