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Botanical Illustration: Aquatic Plants: Yellow Water Lily Illustration:


Yellow Water Lily (Nuphar lutea), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine

About Yellow Water Lilies:
The yellow water lily (waterlily) is also called spatterdock, cow lily, and yellow pond lily. It is an aquatic plant.

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class: Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons)
Order: Nymphaeales
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Genus: Nuphar
Species: Nuphar lutea

More information about Yellow Water Lilies:
Wikipedia: yellow water lily
USDA: Nuphar lutea

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Last updated: Sunday, May 11th 2008