American Wildflower FlorilegiumJean Andrews is a true Renaissance Woman: author, lecturer, artist, naturalist and gourmet cook. She has gathered fifty-two strikingly beautiful American wildflowers which she has paired with a treatise giving the common name, the scientific name, family, origin, range, description, bloom period, pollinators, habitat requirements, propagation, remarks & etymology, and references. “My plant paintings are composites through time which present the generalized growth pattern of the plant, not only with the buds, the mature flower in various aspects-front, side, back-on to the seed pods but also the roots. This is a view of a plant impossible to capture with the camera.” She presents a true wildflower florilegium—a gathering of flowers, a treatise on flowers—for our enjoyment. Illustrated and written with the cooperation of the National Wildflower Research Center and the Department of Botany at the University of Texas at Austin, the Florilegium also has observations by E. Arthur Bell, immediate past Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, England and Ghillean T. Prance, current Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. |
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Amer AMERICAN WILDFLOWER FLORILEGIUM Annual herb Aster ASTERACEAE BLOOM PERIOD blue Bluebonnet Botanic Gardens Botanical art botanist Butterflies collected color COMPOSITAE corn poppies cultivated daisy described DESCRIPTION diameter disk flowers early Erect fields florilegium Flower heads Found fruit Full sun genus genus name germinate Greek HABITAT REQUIREMENTS HISTORY Hooker Hummingbirds insects JEAN ANDREWS Lantana leaves Linnaeus 1753 FAMILY livestock Louisiana MALVACEAE Mexico Missouri Bot moist name honors Native Americans naturalist nectar North America Oenothera Oklahoma Onagraceae ORIGIN paintings PAPAVERACEAE partial shade Perennial herb petals pink Plant seed Pollen-collecting bees pollinated POLLINATOR(S POPPY pounds per acre PRIMROSE PROPAGATION purple Pyrrhopappus RANGE REFERENCES REMARKS & ETYMOLOGY roadsides roots sandy SCIENTIFIC NAME seeding rate sepals Shinners showy soils of prairies southeastern Sow seed SPECIES IN AMERICA species in North species name Species Plantarum stamens stems sun to partial Sunflower tall Texas Thelesperma Thomas Nuttall Torrey Trillium tropical wildflowers yellow ray flowers