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American White Water-Lily (Nymphaea odorata)


Identification Food & Medicinal Uses Web Page Links Online Videos References


Identification

KingdomPlantae – Plants
SubkingdomTracheobionta – Vascular plants
SuperdivisionSpermatophyta – Seed plants
DivisionMagnoliophyta – Flowering plants
ClassMagnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
SubclassMagnoliidae
OrderNymphaeales
FamilyNymphaeaceae – Water-lily family
GenusNymphaea L. – waterlily
SpeciesNymphaea odorata Aiton – American white waterlily


Food & Medicinal Uses



Web Page Links



Online Videos



References

1
Native American Ethnobotany

by Daniel E. Moerman
Timber Press, c1998
ISBN: 0881924539
2
Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to Eastern Indian Tribes

by Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Dover Publications, c1989
ISBN: 048625951X
3 Peterson Field Guide for Edible Wild Plants of Eastern/Central North America
by Lee Allen Peterson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (c1999)
ISBN: 039592622X













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