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
Silphium terebinthinaceum Jacq. (prairie dock), basal leaf (3.80099)
Date: 2005Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Silphium terebinthinaceum Jacq. (prairie dock), basal leaf. Sunlight shine through leaf, showing shadows of other plant life against the wide blade of the leaf. Light pink flower in bottom-right corner.