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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 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 polysepala, also known as the great yellow pond-lily, wokas, [3] or wocus, [2] is a species of Nuphar native to western North America. [4] [5] It is commonly found in shallow muddy ponds from northern Alaska and Yukon southward to central California and northern New Mexico, and can be recognized easily by its large floating leaves and bright yellow blossoms.
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 ]
Nuphar × spenneriana is a perennial, rhizomatous, aquatic plant. [2] The abaxial leaf surface has trichomes towards the leaf margin. [ 3 ] The leaf has 15-22 primary nerves.
Nuphar ulvacea is an aquatic plant with stout, 2-5 cm wide rhizomes with 11-13 mm long, and 8-9 mm wide leaf scars. The petiolate, lanceolate, glabrous floating leaves with a blunt apex are 115-165 mm long, and 54-66 mm wide. The glabrous, terete, smooth petiole is 45-70 cm long, and 7 mm wide.
Nuphar variegata is a rhizomatous, perennial, aquatic [4] herb [5] with 2.5–7 cm wide rhizomes. [6] The leaves are submerged or floating, but most are floating leaves. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] The submerged leaves are 7–35 cm long, and 5–25 cm wide. [ 9 ]