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Watts, May Theilgaard

Emergent Plant Series: #5, Lowland Forest Stage

3.19489
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 showing trees and plants at its edges and bays with additional forest trees and hills in the background, and illustrations of trees and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom.

Header: LOWLAND FOREST STAGE / TREES THAT TOLERATE WET FEET

Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
  • pond and surrounding landscape
  • cross-section [divided into 9 sections]:
    • LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
      • elm
      • ash
      • hackberry
      • linden
    • PIONEER TREE ZONE
    • EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
    • FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
    • SUBMERGED PLANT ZONE
    • FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
    • EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
    • PIONEER TREE ZONE
    • LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
Aquatic plants
Pond ecology
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Fraxinus L. (ash)
Ulmus L. (elm)
Celtis L. (hackberry)
Tilia L. (linden)
Artwork
English
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