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Common names include American lotus, yellow lotus, water-chinquapin, and volée. It is native to North America . The botanical name Nelumbo lutea Willd. is the currently recognized name for this species, which has been classified under the former names Nelumbium luteum and Nelumbo pentapetala , among others.
Ostrinia penitalis, the American lotus borer, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1876. [1] It is found from Mexico, through Central America to Amazonas, Brazil. [2] It is also found in North America, where it has been recorded from Quebec to British Columbia and most of the United States. [3]
Lotus identifies various plant taxa: Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers Nelumbo nucifera, the Sacred or Indian lotus; Nelumbo lutea, the American or yellow lotus; Certain species of Nymphaea (water lilies or Egyptian lotuses): Nymphaea caerulea, also known as blue lotus; Nymphaea lotus, white lotus or sacred lotus
– American lotus (Eastern United States, Mexico, Greater Antilles, Honduras) Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. – sacred or Indian lotus, also known as the Rose of India and the sacred water lily of Hinduism and Buddhism. [20] It is the national flower of India and Vietnam.
Lotus, a latinization of Greek lōtos (), [2] is a genus of flowering plants that includes most bird's-foot trefoils (also known as bacon-and-eggs) [3] and deervetches. [4] Depending on the taxonomic authority, roughly between 70 and 150 species are accepted, all legumes; American species formerly placed in the genus have been transferred to other genera.
Nelumbo nucifera, also known as sacred lotus, Indian lotus, [1] or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. It is sometimes colloquially called a water lily, though this more often refers to members of the family Nymphaeaceae .
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Lotus corniculatus is a flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae. Common names include common bird's-foot trefoil , [ 2 ] eggs and bacon , [ 3 ] birdsfoot deervetch , [ 4 ] and just bird's-foot trefoil [ 5 ] (a name also often applied to other Lotus spp.).