Nuphar lutea

Nuphar lutea
Nuphar lutea
Nuphar lutea at Leiemeersen, Oostkamp, Belgium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
Order: Nymphaeales
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Genus: Nuphar
Species: N. lutea
Binomial name
Nuphar lutea
(L.) Sm.

Nuphar lutea (Yellow Water-lily) is an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia.[1][2]

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Growth

It grows in eutrophic freshwater beds, with its roots fixed into the lake bed and its leaves floating on the water surface; it can grow in water up to 5 metres deep.[3] The flower is solitary, terminal, held above the water surface; it is hermaphrodite, 2–4 cm diameter, with five or six large bright yellow sepals and numerous small yellow petals largely concealed by the sepals. Flowering is from June to September, and pollination is entomophilous, by flies attracted to the alcoholic scent.[3] The flower is followed by a green bottle-shaped fruit, containing numerous seeds which are dispersed by water currents. The species is less tolerant of water pollution than water-lilies in the genus Nymphaea.[3]

Taxonomy

Some botanists have treated Nuphar lutea as the sole species in Nuphar, including all the other species in it as subspecies and giving the species a holarctic range,[4][5] but the genus is now more usually divided into eight species (see Nuphar for details).[6]

Gallery

  • Fruit

  • On Eglinton Loch, North Ayrshire, Scotland

  • Detail of leaf structure

References

  1. ^ Flora Europaea: Nuphar lutea
  2. ^ USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network: Nuphar lutea
  3. ^ a b c Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. ISBN 0-340-40170-2
  4. ^ Beal, E. O. (1956). Taxonomic revision of the genus Nuphar Sm. of North America and Europe. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 72: 317–346.
  5. ^ "Plants Profile: Nuphar lutea". Natural Resources Conservation Service. United States Department of Agriculture. http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=NULU. Retrieved 13 April 2010. 
  6. ^ USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network: Nuphar

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