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|accepted_name=Nymphaea elegans
|accepted_authority=Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Mag., plate
|place=4604. 1851
|year=1851
}}
|common_names=Blue water-lily
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Species
|authority=(Hooker) Greene
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|hierarchy=Nymphaeaceae;Nymphaea;Nymphaea elegans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nymphaeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nymphaea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Nymphaea elegans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="rhizome architecture;rhizome orientation;rhizome shape"><b>Rhizomes </b>unbranched, erect, ovoid;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stolon presence">stolons absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="petiole pubescence"><b>Leaves:</b> petiole glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf-blade coloration or density;leaf-blade coloration;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade atypical length;leaf-blade length;leaf-blade atypical width;leaf-blade width"><b>Leaf-</b>blade abaxially purple, adaxially green, ovate to nearly orbiculate, 8-20 (-30) × 7-16 (-25) cm, margins entire to sinuate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin architecture or arrangement;pattern prominence;pattern architecture;pattern shape;principal vein condition;principal vein quantity">venation radiate and prominent centrally, without weblike pattern, compressed upon drying, principal veins 9-17;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="surface pubescence">surfaces glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower location;flower diameter;sepal condition;whorl fusion;whorl quantity"><b>Flowers </b>emersed, 6-13 cm diam., opening and closing diurnally, only sepals and outermost petals in distinct whorls of 4;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="sepal coloration;sepal coloration;sepal architecture;line height or length or size;line coloration;receptacle prominence">sepals green, abaxially flecked with short dark lines, faintly to obscurely veined, lines of insertion on receptacle not prominent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="petal quantity;petal coloration;petal coloration;petal coloration">petals 8-27, pale violet to nearly white;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="stamen quantity;stamen coloration;connective appendage orientation">stamens 55-145, yellow, connective appendage projecting to 1 mm, rarely more, beyond anther;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="filament width;anther position;anther height or length or size;anther position;anther height or length or size">filaments mostly widest above middle, shorter than anthers;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="pistil architecture or structure in adjective form;appendage some measurement;appendage some measurement;margin shape">pistil 12-20 (-25) -locular, appendages at margin of stigmatic disk triangular, 1 mm or less.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="seed shape;seed length;seed width;seed length or width;papilla height or length or size;papilla fixation or orientation;papilla presence;papilla quantity"><b>Seeds </b>nearly globose, ca. 1.1-1.6 × 0.9-1.3 mm, 1.1-1.3 times as long as broad, with short appressed papillae absent or to 30 µm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Freshwater ponds, lakes, sloughs, pools in swamps and marshes, ditches, and canals
|elevation=0-150 m
|distribution=Fla.;La.;Tex.;ne;w Mexico;West Indies (Bahamas)
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=schneider1982b
|text=Schneider, E. L. 1982. Notes on the floral biology of Nymphaea elegans (Nymphaeaceae) in Texas. Aquatic Bot. 12: 197-200.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Nymphaea elegans
|author=
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Species
|basionyms=
|family=Nymphaeaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Freshwater ponds, lakes, sloughs, pools in swamps and marshes, ditches, and canals
|elevation=0-150 m
|distribution=Fla.;La.;Tex.;ne;w Mexico;West Indies (Bahamas)
|reference=schneider1982b
|publication title=Bot. Mag., plate
|publication year=1851
|special status=Weedy
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|genus=Nymphaea
|species=Nymphaea elegans
|anther height or length or size=shorter;shorter
|anther position=middle;middle
|appendage some measurement=less;1
|connective appendage orientation=projecting
|filament width=widest
|flower diameter=6cm;13cm
|flower location=emersed
|leaf-blade atypical length=20cm;30cm
|leaf-blade atypical width=16cm;25cm
|leaf-blade coloration=green
|leaf-blade coloration or density=purple
|leaf-blade length=8cm;20cm
|leaf-blade shape=ovate;nearly orbiculate
|leaf-blade width=7cm;16cm
|line coloration=dark
|line height or length or size=short
|margin architecture or arrangement=radiate
|margin shape=triangular;entire;sinuate
|papilla fixation or orientation=appressed
|papilla height or length or size=short
|papilla presence=absent
|papilla quantity=0-30 um
|pattern architecture=weblike
|pattern prominence=prominent
|pattern shape=compressed
|petal coloration=pale violet;nearly white
|petal quantity=8;27
|petiole pubescence=glabrous
|pistil architecture or structure in adjective form=12-20(-25)-locular
|principal vein condition=drying
|principal vein quantity=9;17
|receptacle prominence=not prominent
|rhizome architecture=unbranched
|rhizome orientation=erect
|rhizome shape=ovoid
|seed length=1.1mm;1.6mm
|seed length or width=1.1-1.3 times as long as broad
|seed shape=globose
|seed width=0.9mm;1.3mm
|sepal architecture=veined
|sepal coloration=flecked;green
|sepal condition=closing
|stamen coloration=yellow
|stamen quantity=55;145
|stolon presence=absent
|surface pubescence=glabrous
|whorl fusion=distinct
|whorl quantity=4
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