The term water lily, water lilyor lotus is generally applied to aquatic flowering plants that grow in lakes, ponds, ponds, swamps, or slow-flowing streams, where they are usually rooted to the bottom. Water lilies belong to the families Nymphaeaceae, Cabombaceae of the order Nymphaeales; the family Nelumbonaceae of the order Proteales and also to the genera Nymphoides of the family Menyanthaceae of the order Asterales and the genus Hydrocleys of the family Alismataceae of the order Alismatales.