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Nuphar variegata
Also called Variegated Yellow Pond Lily, Pond Lily, Varigated Yellow Pond Lily, Variegated Pond Lily, Cow Lily, Beaver Root, Bobber
Bullhead lily is a rhizomatous perennial aquatic plant native to northern North America, growing in ponds, lakes and slow streams. It thrives with its roots in mud and its leaves and yellow flowers floating or held at the water surface.
Nuphar variegata (variegated pond-lily, bullhead pond-lily or yellow pond-lily) is rhizomatous, perennial, aquatic herb in the water lily family Nymphaeaceae native to much of Canada and the northernmost of the United States.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nuphar variegata 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.
