And Some Brought Flowers: Plants in a New World

From Ash to Wintergreen, Bittersweet to Wappatoo, the common Bedstraw and the uncommon Camas, the edible Fiddlehead Fern and the ubiquitous Dandelion, E. J. Revell has painted beautiful watercolors of these and 62 other plants found in North America. Plant illustrations and accompanying botanical descriptions and quotations are arranged alphabetically, in keeping with the old herbal tradition of plant identification. Plants were chosen for their pictorial value, with the intention that each watercolor should evoke a habitat and associations which match those of the quotations accompanying it. The quotations that are included are from a variety of explorers and settlers, describing the plants and reflecting the practical, aesthetic, and botanic interests of the newcomers in different parts of the country.