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Nuphar lutea, the yellow water-lily, brandy-bottle, or spadderdock, is an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae, native to northern temperate and some subtropical regions of Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia.
Nuphar sect. Nuphar is a section within the genus Nuphar [2] [3] [4] native to Eurasia, [1] in addition to a single North American species Nuphar microphylla. [3] [1]
Nuphar is a genus of aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae, with a temperate to subarctic Northern Hemisphere distribution. Common names include water-lily (Eurasian species; shared with many other genera in the same family), pond-lily, alligator-bonnet or bonnet lily, and spatterdock (North American species).
Nymphaeaceae is a small family of three to six genera: Barclaya, Euryale, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Ondinea, and Victoria. The genus Barclaya is sometimes given rank as its own family, Barclayaceae , on the basis of an extended perianth tube (combined sepals and petals ) arising from the top of the ovary and by stamens that are joined in the base.
Nuphar × spenneriana is a species of rhizomatous aquatic plant native to Europe. It is a natural hybrid of Nuphar lutea and Nuphar pumila. [1]
Nymphaea alba, the white waterlily, European white water lily or white nenuphar / ˈ n ɛ nj ʊ f ɑːr /, is an aquatic flowering plant in the family Nymphaeaceae. [5] [6] [7] It is native to North Africa, temperate Asia, Europe and tropical Asia (Jammu and Kashmir).
Nuphar microphylla is a perennial, [2] rhizomatous, aquatic [3] herb [4] found in North America. It is listed as a special concern and believed extirpated in Connecticut . [ 5 ]
The corpus luteum is so named because it often has a distinctive yellow color. [7] The process of forming the corpus luteum is known as " luteinization ", and thus the hormone that triggers this process is termed the "luteinizing" hormone.