Yellow Pond-Lily

Description:

An aquatic with yellow, cup-like flowers.

Flowers:

1 1/2-2 1/2" wide; sepals 6, showy, petal-like; petals numerous, small, stamen-like; stamens numerous, in several rows; pistil greenish, with 6-25 lines radiating from center.

Leaves:

3-15" long, floating or raised above water surface, heart-shaped, with V-shped notch at base.

Fruit:

Many-seeded, more or less egg-shaped berry.

Height:

Aquatic; flowers and leaves sometimes to 1' above water.

Flowering:

May-September.

Habitat:

Pondsides and quiet streams.

Comments:

This is the most familiar yellow pond lily in the Northeast. Common Spatterdock (N.advena) is very similar; it occurs in the southern United States and as far north as NewEngland, New York, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Small Pond Lily (N. microphylla) has leaves only 2-4" long, flowers 1" wide, and astigmatic disk with only 6-10 rays; it occurs in Canada and only as far south as NewJersey. Arrowleaf Pond Lily (N. sagittifolia), found from Virginia to northeastern South Carolina, has leaves three times as long as wide. The leaves and long, stem-like petioles and flower stalks of water lilies and pond lilies die back each year and contribute to the organic buildup in lakes and marshes.

Picture

Back

Yellow Pond-Lily

Description:	An aquatic with yellow, cup-like flowers.
Flowers:	1 1/2-2 1/2" wide; sepals 6, showy, petal-like; petals numerous, small, stamen-like; stamens numerous, in several rows; pistil greenish, with 6-25 lines radiating from center.
Leaves:	3-15" long, floating or raised above water surface, heart-shaped, with V-shped notch at base.
Fruit:	Many-seeded, more or less egg-shaped berry.
Height:	Aquatic; flowers and leaves sometimes to 1' above water.
Flowering:	May-September.
Habitat:	Pondsides and quiet streams.
Comments:	This is the most familiar yellow pond lily in the Northeast. Common Spatterdock (N.advena) is very similar; it occurs in the southern United States and as far north as NewEngland, New York, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Small Pond Lily (N. microphylla) has leaves only 2-4" long, flowers 1" wide, and astigmatic disk with only 6-10 rays; it occurs in Canada and only as far south as NewJersey. Arrowleaf Pond Lily (N. sagittifolia), found from Virginia to northeastern South Carolina, has leaves three times as long as wide. The leaves and long, stem-like petioles and flower stalks of water lilies and pond lilies die back each year and contribute to the organic buildup in lakes and marshes.
Picture
Back