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Bushwhacking through wildflowers along his property line on a recent day, Williams, Gilbert and the Kreiders looked out on Twin Lake, its surface carpeted in yellow pond lilies and dotted with nesting birds.—
Tony Schick,
ProPublica,
14 Aug. 2025 Great yellow pond lily grows from rhizomes and has large leaves like any other water lily with one flower per leaf.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
10 May 2025 Such pictorial effects are translated into sculptural form in a floral table lamp with individual glowing blossoms shaped like greenish pond lilies, or trailing wisteria vines.—
Steven Litt,
cleveland,
12 Jan. 2020