Date: 1940 – 1950
Creator: 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.
Extent: 1 sheet