Index / Search / Nelumbo lutea
§1 Plant
Nelumbo lutea Willd.
vernacular American lotus — species · Nelumbonaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Nelumbonaceae A. Rich.
- Genus
- Nelumbo
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 443 counties across 29 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -36 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 130 min.
- pH range
- 4.6–8.7
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, bulb
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 443 counties across 29 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Carroll 05015
- Chicot 05017
- Cleburne 05023
- Cleveland 05025
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crittenden 05035
- Desha 05041
- Faulkner 05045
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Jefferson 05069
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Logan 05083
- Lonoke 05085
- Madison 05087
- Nevada 05099
- Newton 05101
- Ouachita 05103
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- St. Francis 05123
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 59 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Bond 17005
- Brown 17009
- Calhoun 17013
- Carroll 17015
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Clinton 17027
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- Edwards 17047
- Fayette 17051
- Franklin 17055
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Jackson 17077
- Jersey 17083
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Johnson 17087
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Lawrence 17101
- Livingston 17105
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- Madison 17119
- Marion 17121
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- McDonough 17109
- McLean 17113
- Menard 17129
- Monroe 17133
- Morgan 17137
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Putnam 17155
- Rock Island 17161
- Sangamon 17167
- Schuyler 17169
- Scott 17171
- St. Clair 17163
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Washington 17189
- White 17193
- Whiteside 17195
- Williamson 17199
Indiana view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Atchison 20005
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Cherokee 20021
- Clay 20027
- Coffey 20031
- Crawford 20037
- Douglas 20045
- Greenwood 20073
- Jackson 20085
- Jefferson 20087
- Johnson 20091
- Kiowa 20097
- Labette 20099
- Linn 20107
- Lyon 20111
- Miami 20121
- Montgomery 20125
- Morris 20127
- Neosho 20133
- Ottawa 20143
- Sedgwick 20173
- Shawnee 20177
- Sumner 20191
- Wyandotte 20209
Kentucky view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafourche 22057
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 58 N ▾
- Adair 29001
- Andrew 29003
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Bates 29013
- Benton 29015
- Boone 29019
- Buchanan 29021
- Butler 29023
- Camden 29029
- Cape Girardeau 29031
- Carroll 29033
- Carter 29035
- Cass 29037
- Cedar 29039
- Clark 29045
- Clay 29047
- Cooper 29053
- Dade 29057
- Dent 29065
- Dunklin 29069
- Greene 29077
- Grundy 29079
- Harrison 29081
- Holt 29087
- Howell 29091
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Johnson 29101
- Laclede 29105
- Lafayette 29107
- Lincoln 29113
- Linn 29115
- Livingston 29117
- Macon 29121
- Madison 29123
- Mercer 29129
- Moniteau 29135
- Monroe 29137
- Morgan 29141
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Ozark 29153
- Pettis 29159
- Phelps 29161
- Pike 29163
- Platte 29165
- Ralls 29173
- Ray 29177
- Reynolds 29179
- Shannon 29203
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Stoddard 29207
- Vernon 29217
- Webster 29225
Nebraska view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 4 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Cameron 48061
- Colorado 48089
- Comal 48091
- Cooke 48097
- Erath 48143
- Galveston 48167
- Garza 48169
- Grayson 48181
- Gregg 48183
- Harris 48201
- Hill 48217
- Kaufman 48257
- Leon 48289
- Marion 48315
- Matagorda 48321
- McLennan 48309
- Nueces 48355
- Parker 48367
- Robertson 48395
- Sabine 48403
- Victoria 48469
- Washington 48477
Virginia view state ↗ 17 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/NELU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7503234 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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