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Nuphar advena (Aiton) W.T.Aiton

Species

Angiosperms > Nymphaeales > Nymphaeaceae > Nuphar

Characteristics

Rhizomes mostly 5-10 cm diam. Leaves mostly emersed, occasionally floating or submersed; petiole terete or adaxially slightly flattened. Leaf blade abaxially and adaxially green, broadly ovate to nearly orbiculate, 12-40-7-30 cm, 1-2 times as long as wide, sinus 1/3-1/2 length of midrib, lobes overlapping to divergent, often forming angle of 90° or greater; surfaces abaxially glabrous to sparsely pubescent. Flowers to 4 cm diam.; sepals mostly 6, abaxially green to adaxially yellow, rarely red-tinged toward base; petals oblong, thick; anthers 3-7 mm, longer than filaments. Fruit green, ovoid, 2-5 × 2-5 cm, moderately ribbed, slightly constricted below stigmatic disk; stigmatic disk green, occasionally reddened, 13-25 mm diam., entire to crenate; stigmatic rays 9-23, linear to lanceolate, terminating 1-3 mm from margin of disk. Seeds 3-6 mm.
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Floating and submersed lvs rarely present; emersed lvs mostly 2–4 dm, on stout petioles, the subacute basal lobes separated by a broadly triangular sinus; petioles terete, or oval in cross section; fls 3–5 cm thick; sep 6, yellow within or rarely suffused with purple; anthers 3–7 mm, longer than the filaments; stigmatic disk greenish, 10–15 mm wide at anthesis, mostly 14–18-rayed; fr broadly ovoid, 4 cm, mostly thicker than long. Sluggish streams, less often in ponds; s. Me. to Fla. and Cuba, w. to Wis., Mo., Kans., Tex., and n. Mex. Summer. (N. fluviatilis; N. macrophylla; N. puteorum)
A herb that grows in water. It keeps growing from year to year and spreads over 2.5 m of the water surface. The plant is spongy. It has a creeping rhizome or underground stem and the leaves are large and heart shaped. The leaves are 35-40 cm long by 20-25 cm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support aquatic
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.2
Mature height (meter) -
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) 0.4
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Ponds, lakes, sluggish streams and rivers, springs, marshes, ditches, canals, sloughs, and tidal waters from sea level to 450 metres.
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Ponds, lakes, sluggish streams and rivers, springs, marshes, ditches, canals, sloughs, and tidal waters from sea level to 450 metres.
It grows in ponds and ditches and slow flowing streams. It grows in shallow water but can be found in water 2 m deep.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 10-12
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 3-5

Usage

The rhizome can be boiled or roasted and eaten with meat. The seeds can be eaten and used to thicken soup. They are ground.
Uses medicinal
Edible rhizomes roots seeds
Therapeutic use Tumor (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown by seeds.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 14 - 30
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30043701-2
WFO ID wfo-0001086925
COL ID 4846D
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Nymphaea arifolia Nuphar ozarkanum Nuphar fluviatilis Nuphar puteorum Nymphaea chartacea Nymphaea advena Nymphaea macrophylla Nymphaea fluviatilis Nuphar advena Nymphaea ludoviciana Nymphaea microcarpa Nymphaea ovata Nymphaea puberula Nymphaea ozarkana Nuphar ludoviciana Nuphar chartacea Nuphar puberula Nuphar x interfluitans Nymphona advena Nuphar microcarpa Nenuphar advena Nymphozanthus advena Nymphozanthus fluviatilis Nymphozanthus ozarkanus Nuphar lutea subsp. macrophylla Nuphar lutea subsp. ozarkana Nuphar advena var. erythraea Nymphaea advena subsp. erythraea Nymphozanthus advena var. macrophyllus Nuphar advena var. cubana Nuphar advena var. tomentosa
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