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Water lily is typically found in herbal manuscripts, but I am not aware of any case where nymphoides is included.

I've seen at least two of them in medieval manuscripts. Most people don't know the plant, so they would probably not recognize them.

They were painted yellow, which is the more common color for the version that is widely distributed in Europe, but Nymphoides is widely distributed around the globe as both yellow and white, both fringed and unfringed, both with a recessed pistil and a protruding pistil (the protruding version is less common but it's like four-leaf clovers, they can occur anywhere).