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Watts, May Theilgaard

Emergent Plant Series: #1, Submerged Plant Stage

3.19485
airbrush, colored pencil, pen and ink on cream board
Digitized
Original
71.3 cm W x 56 cm H (Item)
1 sheet
Drawing
1950s
Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond with trees and hills in background, and a cross-section view of five types of submerged aquatic plants attached to pond bottom.

Header: SUBMERGED PLANT STAGE / PLANTS ATTACHED TO BOTTOM / only their flowers reach the surface

Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
  • pond and surrounding landscape
  • cross-section:
    • WATER WEED--Elodea canadensis
    • EEL GRASS--Vallisneria spiralis
    • PONDWEED--Potamogeton crispus
    • HORNWORT--Ceratophyllum demersum
    • WATER MILFOIL--Myriophyllum spicatum
Aquatic plants
Pond ecology
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Vallisneria americana Michx. (American eelgrass)
Elodea canadensis Michx. (common pondweed)
Ceratophyllum demersum L. (coon's tail)
Potamogeton crispus L. (curly pondweed)
Myriophyllum spicatum L. (Eurasian watermilfoil)
Artwork
English
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