Pink flowers
Cherry blossom, lotus, peonies, carnations and cosmos.
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera
The pink aquatic flower sacred in Asia and grown for food, worship and beauty
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Water flower
ButtercupRanunculus
A widespread group of bright, often shiny-petalled wild and garden flowers
Ranunculus · Wildflower
WaterlilyNymphaea
Floating aquatic flowers found in ponds and lakes worldwide
🇪🇬 Egypt and 7 more · Water flower
Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis
A rare white water lily found only in Romania’s thermal springs
🇷🇴 Romania · Water flower
Amazon water-lilyVictoria amazonica
The enormous floating lily of the Amazon, with leaves up to 3 metres wide
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 more · Water flower
Common water hyacinthPontederia crassipes
A floating aquatic plant that spreads rapidly in warm waters
Pontederia crassipes · Water flower
Santa Cruz water lilyVictoria cruziana
A giant South American water lily with heat-producing pink-and-white flowers
🇧🇴 Bolivia and 3 more · Water flower
Blue water lilyNymphaea nouchali
A star-shaped aquatic bloom in white, blue and pink across South and Southeast Asia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 7 more · Water flower
Hairy Water LilyNymphaea pubescens
A night-blooming water lily with softly hairy leaves and large pink or white flowers
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 7 more · Water flower
Blue water lilyNymphaea nouchali var. caerulea
The sky-blue water lily of ancient Egypt and African lakes
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 more · Water flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Buttercup: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Waterlily: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hairy Water Lily: Bernard Loison, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Sacred lotus: T.Voekler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blue water lily: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis: Lokal_Profil, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Amazon water-lily: Bilby, CC BY 3.0, source
- Common water hyacinth: Ivandro batista de q…, CC BY 3.0, source
- Santa Cruz water lily: Jayme Bastos, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Blue water lily: Nguyễn Tấn Phát, CC BY-SA 3.0, source