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Watts, May Theilgaard

Growth of Pond: Submerged Plant Stage

3.19492
airbrush, watercolor, and ink on cream board
Digitized
Original
71.3 cm W x 56 cm H (Item)
1 sheet
Drawing
1940 – 1950
Part of a series of illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond with two bays and a cross-section view of five types of submerged aquatic plants attached to pond bottom.

Header: SUBMERGED PLANT STAGE / PLANTS ATTACHED TO BOTTOM / only their flowers float on the surface

Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
  • Pond: sheltered bays are first to show vegetation
  • CROSS-SECTION of MARGIN
    • Water milfoil--Myriophyllum spicatum
    • Water weed--Elodea canadensis
    • Eelgrass--Vallisneria spiralis
    • Pondweed--Potamogeton crispus
    • Hornwort--Ceratophyllum demersum
Aquatic plants
Pond ecology
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Vallisneria americana Michx. (American eelgrass)
Elodea canadensis Michx. (common pondweed)
Ceratophyllum demersum L. (coon's tail)
Potamogeton crispus L. (curly pondweed)
Myriophyllum spicatum L. (Eurasian watermilfoil)
Artwork
English
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