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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 California native of the week: Rocky Mountain or great yellow pond lily (Nuphar lutea) has a habitat that stretches from Alaska down to central California.—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
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