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Juglans cinerea is a deciduous tree reaching nearly 100 ft. in height. Its bark is grayish-brown, with smooth ridges. The pith of the stems is transversely partitioned into chambers which are dark chocolate brown. The leaves are compound with 11-17 leaflets that have long, pointed tips. Leaflets from the middle of the leaf are the largest. The flowers are in dense, drooping catkins (resembling c...

Pygmy Water-lily is an herbaceous perennial with submergent stems and floating leaves arising from a thick rhizome. The leaves have a long, slender petiole attached to the base of a long, v-shaped notch in the elliptic blades that are 7-10 cm long. The bowl-shaped flowers have long, slender stalks and float on the surface of the water. Each flower has 4 light green, narrowly elliptic sepals that...

A water lily with broad floating leaves and greenish to golden yellow or red-tinged flowers at the surface or emersed, and not opening and closing from day to day. Source: Encyclopedia of Life