Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie
3.24642
Pen and India ink with black crayon on cream 4-ply coquille board.
Digitized
Original
28.6 cm W x 22.2 cm H (Item)
1 sheet
Drawing
20th century
Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Prairie plants
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Amorpha canescens Pursh (leadplant)
Andropogon gerardii Vitman (big bluestem)
Ceanothus americanus L. (New Jersey-tea)
Euphorbia corollata L. (flowering spurge)
Fragaria virginiana Mill. (wild strawberry)
Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville (yellow star-grass)
Lithospermum canescens (Michx.) Lehm. (hoary puccoon)
Panicum virgatum L. (switch grass)
Silphium terebinthinaceum Jacq. (prairie dock)
Sisyrinchium albidum Raf. (common blue-eyed-grass)
Spartina pectinata Link (prairie cord grass)
Viola pedata L. (bird’s foot violet)
Rudbeckia hirta L. (black-eyed Susan)
Liatris Gaertn. ex Schreb. (blazing star)
Anemone canadensis L. (Canada anemone)
Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farw. (Culver’s root)
Phlox pilosa L. (downy phlox)
Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash (Indian grass)
Helianthus grosseserratus M. Martens (sawtooth sunflower)
Solidago rigida L. (stiff goldenrod)
Asclepias sullivantii Engelm. ex Gray (Sullivant’s milkweed)
Thalictrum pubescens Pursh (tall meadow-rue)
Elymus L. (wildrye)
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Amorpha canescens Pursh (leadplant)
Andropogon gerardii Vitman (big bluestem)
Ceanothus americanus L. (New Jersey-tea)
Euphorbia corollata L. (flowering spurge)
Fragaria virginiana Mill. (wild strawberry)
Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville (yellow star-grass)
Lithospermum canescens (Michx.) Lehm. (hoary puccoon)
Panicum virgatum L. (switch grass)
Silphium terebinthinaceum Jacq. (prairie dock)
Sisyrinchium albidum Raf. (common blue-eyed-grass)
Spartina pectinata Link (prairie cord grass)
Viola pedata L. (bird’s foot violet)
Rudbeckia hirta L. (black-eyed Susan)
Liatris Gaertn. ex Schreb. (blazing star)
Anemone canadensis L. (Canada anemone)
Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farw. (Culver’s root)
Phlox pilosa L. (downy phlox)
Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash (Indian grass)
Helianthus grosseserratus M. Martens (sawtooth sunflower)
Solidago rigida L. (stiff goldenrod)
Asclepias sullivantii Engelm. ex Gray (Sullivant’s milkweed)
Thalictrum pubescens Pursh (tall meadow-rue)
Elymus L. (wildrye)
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