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Nuphar sagittifolia
Also called Arrow Leaved Water Lily, Yellow Pond Lily
Cape Fear Spatterdock is a perennial, rhizomatous aquatic plant with narrow arrow-shaped leaves and yellow flowers, native to coastal plain lakes, ponds and slow rivers from Virginia to South Carolina. It needs standing or slow water and acidic conditions to thrive.
Nuphar sagittifolia, also known as Arrowleaf Pond-lily, Cape Fear spatterdock, or Narrow-leaved Spatterdock, is a perennial, rhizomatous, aquatic herb in the family Nymphaeaceae with unique narrowly lanceolate leaves known only from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
It is aquatic, found in lakes, ponds, and slow-moving rivers in the coastal plains in up to 2.1 m deep, acidic water.
Spatter Dock · East Asian Yellow Water Lily · Yellow Water-lily · Bullhead Lily · Pond-lily
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nuphar sagittifolia 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.
