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Nuphar advena
Also called Broad Leaved Pond Lily, Large Yellow Pond Lily, Yellow Pond Lily, Broadleaf Pond Lily, Spatterdock
Spatterdock (Nuphar advena) is a rhizomatous aquatic perennial with floating and submerged leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers that rise above the water. Grow it rooted in shallow water or wet mud in a pond or margin.
Nuphar advena (spatterdock or cow lily or yellow pond-lily) is a species of Nuphar native throughout the eastern United States and in some parts of Canada, as well as Mexico and Cuba. It is locally naturalized in Britain.
It is native to Canada (such as Nova Scotia), the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. It has been introduced to the United Kingdom.
The plant is used as food. The dried seeds can be eaten or ground to flour. Native Americans cooked the rootstocks and removed the rind to prepare the sweetish, glutinous contents in various ways.
East Asian Yellow Water Lily · Yellow Water-lily · Cape Fear Spatterdock · Bullhead Lily · Pond-lily
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
