Growth of Pond: Emergent Plant Stage

Identifier3.19494

TypeDrawing

Date created1940 – 1950

DescriptionPart of a series of illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond with some plants showing at the surface of its edges and its bays, 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
• CROSS-SECTION of MARGIN [divided into 3 sections]:
  • Emergent Plant Zone
    • cat-tails
    • arrowhead
    • bur reed
    • pickerel weed
    • bullrush
  • Floating Plant Zone
    • white water lily
    • cow lily
  • Submerged Plant Zone
    • pondweed
    • eel grass
    • water milfoil
    • etc.

LanguageEnglish