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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=W1
|label=
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Castalia elegans
|authority=(Hooker) Greene
|rank=species
}}
|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-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>unbranched, erect, ovoid; stolons absent. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blade abaxially purple, adaxially green, ovate to nearly orbiculate, 8-20(-30) × 7-16(-25) cm, margins entire to sinuate; venation radiate and prominent centrally, without weblike pattern, compressed upon drying, principal veins 9-17; surfaces glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> emersed, 6-13 cm diam., opening and closing diurnally, only sepals and outermost petals in distinct whorls of 4; sepals green, abaxially flecked with short dark lines, faintly to obscurely veined, lines of insertion on receptacle not prominent; petals 8-27, pale violet to nearly white; stamens 55-145, yellow, connective appendage projecting to 1 mm, rarely more, beyond anther; filaments mostly widest above middle, shorter than anthers; pistil 12-20(-25)-locular, appendages at margin of stigmatic disk triangular, 1 mm or less. <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
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Castalia elegans
|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=W1
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|genus=Nymphaea
|species=Nymphaea elegans
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