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Menyanthaceae > Nymphoides (floating heart)

Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata) Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata)
Edge of lake in Sandhills Gamelands, Scotland Co., NC
14 June 2008

Uncommon in North Carolina (NC Watch List). Most occurences in NC are in the sandhills.

Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata) Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata)
Edge of lake in Sandhills Gamelands, Scotland Co., NC
14 June 2008

Attractive native aquatic wildflower. Ranges from Canada to Florida but is often quite local in distribution.

Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata) Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata)
Edge of lake in Sandhills Gamelands, Scotland Co., NC
14 June 2008

Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata) Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata)
Edge of lake in Sandhills Gamelands, Scotland Co., NC
14 June 2008

Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata) Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata)
Edge of lake in Sandhills Gamelands, Scotland Co., NC
14 June 2008


Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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