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Nuphar lutea
Also called Yellow pond-lily, Yellow cowlily, Yellow pondlily, Brandy Bottle
Nuphar lutea is a rhizomatous aquatic perennial native to temperate Europe and Asia, with yellow flowers floating on the water surface. It needs still or slow water and a rich, muddy bed, grown as a pond plant rather than a houseplant.
Nuphar lutea, the yellow water-lily, is an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae, native to northern temperate and some subtropical regions of Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia. This species was used as a food source and in medicinal practices from prehistoric times with potential research and medical applications going forward.
Nuphar lutea is native to the region spanning from Europe to Siberia, Xinjiang, China, and North Algeria. It is extinct in Sicily, Italy. It has been introduced to Bangladesh, New Zealand, and the Russian region Primorye.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nuphar lutea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
