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Nuphar polysepala
Mostly yellow flower with dark red on the inside petals.
Large marsh.
Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area, British Columbia, Canada. Ramsar site no. 649.
Spotted on Jun 16, 2018
Submitted on Jun 23, 2018
6 Comments
Thank you.
Congrets Greg for the SOTD!
Thank you very much António.
Great find Greg,beautiful,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
Thank you very much Daniele...It was an impressive plant to see in the wild.
Congratulations Greg, your Rocky Mountain Pond-lily is our Spotting of the Day:
"We're staying in Canada today with this showy, brightly-colored Rocky Mountain Pond-lily (Nuphar polysepala) as our Spotting of the Day! Also known as great yellow pond-lily, Nuphar polysepala is native to western North America. "Polysepala" means "many sepals", where sepals are outer modified leaves which are here bright yellow, large and petal-like. The flower's true petals are small and hidden near the stamens. Leaves are round to oval and usually floating, while submerged underwater are the pond-lily's thick and fleshy rhizomes. This pond-lily was spotted in the Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area in British Columbia, a site classified as a wetland of international importance (Ramsar site no. 649)".
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