Archive for August 20th, 2013
White water lily with scrolled leaf
Water lilies are appealing in their own right, of course, but what further intrigued me here was the way a leaf of this plant had risen out of the water and formed a scroll (which some of you may anthropomorphize into the top of a cowboy boot).
Nymphaea odorata is a white-flowered water lily native in Texas and most other American states as well as parts of Canada and Mexico.
This is the fifth in a series of pictures I took at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on July 23, and the first in these pages ever to show a water lily.
© 2013 Steven Schwartzman