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Menyanthaceae
Yellow floatingheart
Nymphoides peltata
Also known as Floating heart, Yellow water fringe, Banana plant, Villarsia nymphoidea
Native Plants · Aquatic · Pond-Plant · Water-Garden · Floating · Yellow-Flowers · Invasive · Menyanthaceae · Perennial · Wildlife-Pond · Waterlily-Like
Yellow floatingheart is an attractive aquatic perennial with lily-pad-like leaves and cheerful bright yellow flowers that float on the water surface of ponds and slow streams. Plant it in submerged containers filled with loamy soil and place in a sunny, still-water position for best flowering. Be aware that it can spread aggressively and is considered invasive in parts of North America, so monitor its spread in outdoor water features.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 7 hours
- Watering
- Keep roots submerged in 1-4 feet of still or slow-moving water at all times · Continuous — grows submerged or at water surface
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6.5–7
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 24 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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