waterwillows

Updated: June 15, 2025

At last I came to the edge of the bushes: they were young waterwillows, covered with their caterpillar-like blossoms, but intervening between them and the last grass clump was a black and deep slough, over which, by a vigorous exertion, I contrived to jump.

Francis Parkman - The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life