Identifier

3.19487

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 edges and its bays 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 up to and above the water's surface.

Header: EMERGENT-PLANT STAGE / PLANTS UPRIGHT / only roots and base under water

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

• pond and surrounding landscape
• cross-section [divided into 6 sections]:
  • EMERGENT ZONE
    • cat-tails
    • arrowhead
    • bur reed
    • pickerel weed
    • bullrush
  • FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
  • SUBMERGED-PLANT ZONE
  • SUBMERGED-PLANT ZONE
  • FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
  • EMERGENT ZONE