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Emergent Plant Series: #3, Emergent-Plant Stage (3.19487)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing some plants at the surface of its edges and its bays with trees and hills in background, 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 and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 6 sections]:
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bullrush
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- SUBMERGED-PLANT ZONE
- SUBMERGED-PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- EMERGENT ZONE
- EMERGENT ZONE
Extent: 1 sheet
Growth of Pond: Emergent Plant Stage (3.19494)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part 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.
- Emergent Plant Zone
Extent: 1 sheet