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N. peltata are commonly sold for use in ornamental water gardens. [3] [10] The species is intentionally or accidentally transferred to lakes and rivers outside of its native range. [2] In the United States, the first recorded occurrence of the plant was in 1882 in Massachusetts, [3] and the plant has been sold domestically since the 1930s. [16]
Nuphar pumila, the least water-lily [4] or small yellow pond-lily, is an aquatic perennial plant in the Nymphaeaceae family. It is also known as the dwarf water lily since it looks like a smaller Nuphar lutea. while Nuphar pumila has a star-shaped, or lobed form of the stigma disc and glabrous leaf undersides, Nuphar lutea has a round stigma disc and the undersides of its leaves are ...
Many of the water lilies familiar in water gardening are hybrids and cultivars. These cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit: 'Escarboucle' [55] (orange-red) 'Gladstoniana' [56] (double white flowers with prominent yellow stamens) 'Gonnère' [57] (double white scented flowers) 'James Brydon;' [58] (cupped ...
N. tetragona is an important ornamental plant. [7] [14] [20] The buds of the leaf and the seeds can also be used as food. [14] In Buddhism, it is used as an offering flower. [21] It has a rich history of use in ethnomedicine. [20] Tribal practitioners of herbal medicine would use the rhizomes of N. tetragona to treat dysentery and diarrhea. [20]
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).
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Indiana is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Indiana. [1] [2 ...
The hairy water lily is known kokaa in Hindi and Kumuda in Sanskrit. [7] The leaves of this plant have fuzzy or hairy undersides and the stems are covered by the same hairs as well, hence the name "pubescens" or "hairy" of the species. This is not a characteristic that is apparent when looking at the plant from above the water though.
The Nymphaeales are an order of flowering plants, consisting of three families of aquatic plants, the Hydatellaceae, the Cabombaceae, and the Nymphaeaceae (water lilies). It is one of the three orders of basal angiosperms, an early-diverging grade of flowering plants. At least 10 morphological characters unite the Nymphaeales. [3]