Nuphar advena Ait. SPATTER-DOCK COW-LILY, COMMON YELLOW POND-LILY.
"With Numphaea tuberosa ...in shallow places in the river,
some distance above the Falls," Day (1888). Ontario, Niagara Park System,
Cameron (1895). "... common in Black Creek and other streams that cross
the Boulevard between Queen Victoria Park and Fort Erie," Hamilton (1943).
New York: (as
Nymphaea advena Soland.; as Nuphar luteum ssp. macrophyllum
(Small) Beal) Niagara Falls. Cayuga Creek near La Salle. Aug. 2, 1899 (BUF).
Ontario: Chippewa, Ottilie
E. Hauenstein, June 22, 1889 (BUF); Queen Victoria Park, Cameron, July 1894
(NFO).
This plant may represent Day's Nelumbium
luteum, Willd. (presently Nuphar lutea (Willd.) Person)
discussed in his 1882 publication. In the 1883 supplement, Day wrote "Mr.
Charles E. Smith, of Philadelphia, a very competent botanist, states to us, in
a letter, that in passing from Montreal to Niagara, through Canada, he saw, in
a number of sluggish streams crossed by the railroad, this remarkable plant in
bloom. The fact, tending as it does to confirm Mr Cowell's observation,
deserves to be mentioned here." Cowell had informed Day of its occurrence
Dunnville, Ont. Zenkert (1934) quoted Macoun's response: "I agree with him
[Day] as my own information points to the same conclusion (Cat. of Can. Pl.,
Part II, p. 484." Zenkert saw no specimen from the Niagara Frontier region
either in the herbarium or the field. House (1924) reported that "the only
known locality for this plant in New York state is Sodus Bay, Wayne
county" in New York State, and Zander and Pierce (1979) did not include it
in their checklist of species growing in the Niagara region.
Nuphar
microphyllum (Pers.) Fern. SMALL
YELLOW POND-LILY. (As Nuphar pumilum) Ontario, Niagara Park
System, Cameron (1895). Ontario: Chippewa, Wm. Scott, July 8, 1896, Heimburger
(1955).
Ontario: Chippewa River,
Elizabeth C. Rochester [late 1800's] (BUF).
Listed as rare in the Niagara Frontier Region
by Zander and Pierce (1979).