USDA Zone 4a: to -34.4 °C (-30 °F)
USDA Zone 4b: to -31.6 °C (-25 °F)
USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8 °C (-20 °F)
USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 °C (-10 °F)
USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 °C (-5 °F)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F)
USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 °C (20 °F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 °C (35 °F)
USDA Zone 11: above 4.5 °C (40 °F)
A big, bold, beautiful water plant with huge, fragrant flowers. It is much like the Asian lotus, N. nucifera, except in flower color, and...Read More
Growing lotus for the first time in an old pond (quite small) I figure I can offset the invasive factor by collecting seeds and pulling s...Read More
The seed is edible. When it's still green, you can pick it out of the pod and eat it raw - very sweet and fresh. If the seed pod has drie...Read More
Native plants become invasive when competitor plants are destroyed or not present where they are planted. This happens especially with d...Read More
Isn't the notion of an invasive native an oxymoron? If not, I can think of a half-dozen natives that ought to be targets for the weedkill...Read More
The scent alone is well worth growing this for! They are a pretty yellow here and just gorgeous. They do get rather tall, but if they are...Read More
I am in zone 5/6 near Kansas City....The Mo. Dept of Conservation does consider this plant very invasive, and does not encourage its plan...Read More
AMerican lotus leaves emerge in the early summer, some warmer places they will emerge in late spring and become suspended about 2-3 feet ...Read More