Identifier

3.19486

Type

Drawing

Date created

1950s

Description

Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing some plants at the surface of its bay with trees and hills in background, and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom, with leaves and flowers of shallower plants extended to water's surface.

Header: FLOATING-LEAF PLANT STAGE / PLANTS ATTACHED TO BOTTOM / leaves and flowers floating at surface

Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:

• pond and surrounding landscape
• cross-section [divided into 4 sections]:
  • FLOATING LEAF ZONE
    • water lily
    • cow lily
  • SUBMERGED PLANT ZONE
    • water weed
    • eel grass
    • pondweed
    • hornwort
    • water milfoil
  • SUBMERGED PLANT STAGE
  • FLOATING LEAF ZONE