Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description: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:
- 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
Extent: 1 sheet
Big bluestem and prairie dock (3.3559)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie bluestem and prairie dock
Extent: 1 photograph
Ray Schulenberg in fall prairie with big bluestem (3.3584)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg in fall prairie with big bluestem
Extent: 1 photograph
Blazing star and bluestem (3.36237)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Blazing star and bluestem grow in a prairie cemetery. Farmland appears in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Big bluestem and blazing star (3.36260)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Big bluestem and blazing star growing near plowed fields.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Big bluestem on a grave (3.36268)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A cluster of big bluestem grows next to a tombstone.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem), bark, stem (3.69379)
Date: October 4 2016Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem), bark, stem
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), bark, stem (3.69380)
Date: September 14 2010Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), bark, stem
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), flower, full (3.69381)
Date: July 31 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), flower, full
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), flower, full (3.69382)
Date: September 14 2010Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), flower, full
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), flower, full (3.69383)
Date: September 19 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), flower, full
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), fruit, mature (3.69384)
Date: October 17 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), fruit, mature
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), fruit, mature (3.69385)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), fruit, mature
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, fall (3.69386)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, fall
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer (3.69387)
Date: June 16 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer (3.69388)
Date: July 30 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer (3.69389)
Date: July 31 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer (3.69390)
Date: August 2 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer (3.69391)
Date: August 9 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer (3.69392)
Date: September 14 2010Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habit, summer
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habitat (3.69393)
Date: July 31 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habitat
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habitat (3.69394)
Date: October 17 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habitat
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habitat (3.69395)
Date: October 4 2016Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), habitat
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence (3.69396)
Date: July 30 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence
Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem), inflorescence (3.69397)
Date: July 31 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem), inflorescence
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence (3.69398)
Date: July 31 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence (3.69399)
Date: September 2 2013Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence (3.69400)
Date: September 72016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence (3.69401)
Date: August 2 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence (3.69402)
Date: August 9 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence (3.69403)
Date: August 9 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence (3.69404)
Date: September 14 2010Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), inflorescence
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), infructescence (3.69405)
Date: October 17 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), infructescence
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), leaf, lower surface (3.69406)
Date: July 31 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), leaf, lower surface
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), leaf, sheath (3.69407)
Date: July 31 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), leaf, sheath
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), leaf, sheath (3.69408)
Date: July 31 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), leaf, sheath