A Midcentury Map of American Wildflowers
This 1955 map of “The Wild Flowers of Spring,” a collaboration between a botanist and an abstract expressionist painter, locates early-blooming American wildflowers geographically. The flowers are numbered and lettered, with common names appearing around the perimeter of the map.
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