Common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers

Usage examples of spatterdock.

All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?

The European Yellow Pond-Lily (Nuphar Advena or Nuphar luteum - Spatterdock or Frog-lily) may be used as a substitute.