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Watts, May Theilgaard

Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage

Identifier
3.19490
Format
airbrush, colored pencil, pen and ink on cream board
Digitization Status
Digitized
Reproduction:
Original
Dimensions
71.3 cm W x 56 cm H (Item)
Extent
1 sheet
Type
Drawing
Date created
1950s
Description
Part 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
Subject - keywords and LC headings
Aquatic plants
Pond ecology
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Pontederia cordata L. (pickerel-weed)
Fraxinus L. (ash)
Scirpus L. (bulrush)
Typha L. (cattail)
Sagittaria latifolia Willd. (common arrowhead)
Sparganium eurycarpum Engelm. (common bur reed)
Ulmus L. (elm)
Celtis L. (hackberry)
Carya Nutt. (hickory)
Tilia L. (linden)
Quercus rubra L. (northern red oak)
Acer saccharinum L. (silver maple)
Quercus alba L. (white oak)
Salix L. (willow)
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