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Photographer: Scott A. Milburn
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Family Nymphaeaceae
Nuphar variegata Durand
bull-head pond-lily
Nuphar: ultimately from the Persian word nufar
variegata: variegated
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | floating, perennial aquatic; from large, spongy rhizome with the old leaf scars forming spirals |
| Flower: | yellow with reddish color inside, 7 or more-parted, 1"-2" wide, held above the water, globe or saucer shaped, mostly 6 sepals; solitary; blooms June-Aug. |
| Leaf: | 2"-6" roundly arrow-shaped with rounded sometimes overlapping lobes, leaf notch usually less than half as long as the midrib, most floating, the stalk flattened and slightly winged |
| Habitat: | sun to shade; water less than 7' deep; in sediment soil |
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