Taxon: Nymphaea odorata Aiton subsp. odorata

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See other conspecific taxa:

• Nymphaea odorata (no accessions)
• Nymphaea odorata subsp. tuberosa (no accessions)

Common names:

• fragrant water-lily   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• white water-lily   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• nymphéa odorant   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• wohlriechende Seerose   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as N. odorata; Herbs Commerce ed2, as N. odorata)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba [s.e.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Durango
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Federal District, Hidalgo, Mexico, Michoacan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1975. Aquatic and wetland plants of southwestern United States, 2 vol.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. [= Nymphaea odorata Aiton].
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Hellquist, C. B. & J. H. Wiersema. 1996. Observations on native Nymphaea of northern North America and their use in water gardening. Water Gard. J. 12(4):9–15.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Lot, A. et al. 1999. Catálogo de angiospermas acuáticas de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 33:99.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. [= Nymphaea odorata Aiton].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Wiersema, J. H. 1997. Nymphaea. In: FNA Editorial Committee, Flora of North America.

Synonyms:

• (=) Castalia lekophylla Small
  
• (=) Castalia minor (Sims) Nyár.
  
• (≡) Castalia odorata (Aiton) Wood
  
• (=) Castalia odorata var. latifolia R. M. Harper
  
• (=) Castalia pringlei Rose
  
• (=) Castalia pudica Salisb.
  
• (=) Castalia reniformis (Walter) Hitchc.
  
• (=) Castalia spirilis (Raf.) Cockerell
  
• (≡) Leuconymphaea odorata (Aiton) Kuntze
  
• (=) Leuconymphaea parkeriana (Lehm.) Kuntze
  
• (=) Leuconymphaea reniformis (Walter) Kuntze
  
• (=) Nymphaea lekophylla (Small) Cory
  
• (=) Nymphaea minor (Sims) DC.
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. chlorhiza Raf.
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. gigantea Tricker
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. glabra Casp.
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. godfreyi D. B. Ward
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. minor Sims
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. parviflora Raf.
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. rosea Pursh
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. rubella Raf.
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata f. rubra (Guillon) Conard
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. stenopetala Fernald
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata [unranked] rubra Guillon
  
• (=) Nymphaea odorata var. villosa Casp.
  
• (=) Nymphaea parkeriana Lehm.
  
• (=) Nymphaea reniformis Walter
  
• (=) Nymphaea spirilis Raf.
  

Check other web resources for Nymphaea odorata Aiton subsp. odorata:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Nymphaea odorata subsp. odorata cultivars

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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