White flowers
Jasmine, tuberose, lilies, magnolia and frangipani.
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
White Water-lilyNymphaea alba
A floating white flower of ponds and lakes across Europe and Asia
🇸🇪 Sweden and 5 more · Wildflower
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
Nymphaea candida
A white-flowered water lily found in quiet Eurasian waters
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Wildflower
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
ArrowheadSagittaria
Aquatic plants with arrow-shaped leaves and edible tubers
Sagittaria · Wildflower
Cahaba lilyHymenocallis coronaria
A white aquatic flower found on rocky river shoals in the southeastern United States
🇺🇸 United States · Wildflower
Prickly Water LilyEuryale ferox
A spiny water lily grown for its edible seeds in Asia
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Water flower
Pygmy Rwandan waterlilyNymphaea thermarum
A tiny white waterlily once thought lost from its Rwandan spring home
🇷🇼 Rwanda and 1 more · Wildflower
Santa Cruz water lilyVictoria cruziana
A giant South American water lily with heat-producing pink-and-white flowers
🇧🇴 Bolivia and 3 more · Water flower
Giant waterlilyNymphaea gigantea
A large aquatic lily with floating leaves and day-blooming blue flowers
🇦🇺 Australia · Water flower
Japanese irisIris laevigata
A water-loving Japanese iris with violet-blue blooms and historic garden ties
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Water flower
Egyptian white water-lilyNymphaea lotus
A night-blooming white water-lily and the national flower of Egypt
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 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
Giant blue irisIris giganticaerulea
Tall blue-flowered iris native to the wetlands of the southern United States
🇺🇸 United States · Wildflower
Pygmy waterlilyNymphaea tetragona
A small white waterlily found in calm waters across the northern hemisphere
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Asian skunk cabbageLysichiton camtschatcensis
A white-flowered wetland plant from northern Japan and the Russian Far East
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Egyptian white water-lily: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Giant blue iris: Steve Hurst @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database, Public domain, source
- Buttercup: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Waterlily: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- White Water-lily: DerHexer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pygmy waterlily: Hooker, William; Salisbury, R. A.; Shury, D. N., Public domain, source
- Asian skunk cabbage: MathieuMD, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 candida: Finner, Public domain, source
- Hymenocallis: Altairisfar, Public domain, source
- Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis: Lokal_Profil, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Amazon water-lily: Bilby, CC BY 3.0, source
- Arrowhead: Ayotte, Gilles, 1948-, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Prickly Water Lily: John Sims, Public domain, source
- Pygmy Rwandan waterlily: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Santa Cruz water lily: Jayme Bastos, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Giant waterlily: botanygirl, CC BY 4.0, source
- Japanese iris: Dennis L. Lindwall, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blue water lily: Nguyễn Tấn Phát, CC BY-SA 3.0, source