Sweet-Scented Water-Lily
Scientific Name:Nymphaea odorata
Common Name Synonyms: Fragrant Water-Lily


NOTES: Floating aquatic, growing in water up to 8 feet deep. Fragrant flowers 3-6 inches across last 3-4 days, opening during the morning and closing during the afternoon. Grows in "Willow Pond."

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Sweet-Scented Water-Lily
Genus species: Nymphaea odorata
Common Names: Sweet-Scented Water-Lily
Fragrant Water-Lily
Family Name: Nymphaeaceae  
Aquatic, perennial herbs; leaves floating or emersed, attached to the rhizome by long petioles, simple and ovate to orbicular with a basal notch at the point of petiole attachment; flowers bisexual, regular, solitary on long peduncles from the rhizome; ovaries superior; fruit berrylike, with many seeds.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Introduced Native
Category:Aquatic
Flower Color:White
Identified by:M. Becus
Months in Bloom:  
The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicate when the plant has been observed blooming.
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