Water Snowflake
कुमुदবড় চাঁদমালা
Nymphoides indica (L.) Kuntze
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Menyanthaceae
Also called Snowflake Marshwort, Water snowflake, Water-snowflake
Formerly Limnanthemum calycinum, Limnanthemum ecklonianum, Limnanthemum esquirolii, Limnanthemum fraserianum, and 20 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- HydroperennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to SW. PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Estrella de agua
- Chinese
- 印度莕菜, 一葉蓮, 金银莲花
- Portuguese
- Ninféia
- Chinese (China)
- 印度荇菜, 金银莲花
- Russian
- Болотноцветник индийский
- Arabic
- زهرة الأهوار ندفة الثلج
- Indonesian
- Bunga Tetepok
- Thai
- บัวบา
- Japanese
- ガガブタ
- Korean
- 어리연꽃
- French
- Faux nénuphar des Indes, Faux Nénuphar des Indes, Menyanthe de l'Inde
- Marathi
- कुमुद
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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
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.