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Photographer: Len Place
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Family Nymphaeaceae
Nymphaea odorata Aiton
American white water-lily, fragrant water-lily
Nymphaea: Greek and Roman mythology probably referring to attractive and playful water nymphs of the same habitat
odorata: fragrant
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | floating, perennial aquatic; with fleshy rhizomes |
| Flower: | white, 7 or more-parted, 2 1/2"-7 1/2" wide, solitary, floating on the water surface, 4 green sepals; blooms July-Sept. |
| Leaf: | round, one edge narrowly slit to the stalk, green on top, purple on the bottom; most floating, leaf stalks round with 4 large, air passages |
| Habitat: | water less than 7' deep; in sediment soil |
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