Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage

Identifier3.19490

TypeDrawing

Date created1950s

DescriptionPart of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes a view of a pond in the center with forest trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section of illustrations of forest trees, and trees and emergent plants of the water's edge.

Header: CLIMAX FOREST STAGE / THE PERMAMENT FOREST of the REGION

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

• pond and surrounding landscape
• cross-section [divided into 7 sections]:
  • CLIMAX FOREST
    • red oak
    • white oak 
    • hickory
  • LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
    • elm
    • ash
    • hackberry
    • linden
  • PIONEER TREE ZONE
    • willow
    • silver maple
  • EMERGENT ZONE
    • cat-tails
    • arrowhead
    • bur reed
    • pickerel weed
    • bull-rush
  • PIONEER TREE ZONE
  • LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
  • CLIMAX FOREST