Yellow Waterlily
Nymphaea mexicananative · Central Texas
Yellow Waterlily is a wildflower native to Central Texas that grows 0.5–1 ft tall and 2 ft wide. It wants full sun and high water. Blooms yellow in spring. Good for aquatic wildlife, birds and small mammals.
Wet ground only. A wetland plant: it needs standing water or saturated soil — a pond edge, creek bank or rain garden, not a dry upland bed.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun (6–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- High
- Height
- 0.5–1 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Bloom
- Spring · yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on deep, moist, mud
- Wildlife
- Supports aquatic wildlife, birds, deer and small mammals
Where it grows
Recorded in this EPA Level IV ecoregion in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Floodplains and Low Terraces
46 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.