Flora of Louisiana

Flora of Louisiana by Stones, Margaret. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780807116647.

Many years ago, during a long, confining illness in her native Australia, Margaret Stones whiled away the hours drawing the wildflowers friends placed at her bedside. Today she is acclaimed as one of the worlds most distinguished botanical artists. Stones served for twenty-five years as the principal illustrator for Curtiss Botanical Magazine, contributing more than 400 drawings. She has also completed a six-volume illustrated work, The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, and has worked under commission for the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, England, the Royal Horticultural Society of England, and similar institutions the world over.In 1976, as part of the United States bicentennial celebration, Louisiana State University commissioned Stones to execute six watercolor renderings of Louisiana flora. This initial project was so successful that Stones was asked to draw a much larger number of the states native plants. Today Stones has completed more than 200 watercolors, all of which are maintained in the LSU Libraries E. A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection. The drawings represent not only a collection of exquisite botanical art but an accurate scientific record of Louisianas lush, varied, and beautiful flora.Flora of Louisiana reproduces the great bulk of Stoness collection. The volume contains more than 200 pages of full-color and black-and-white illustrations. Each drawing is accompanied by a short text that gives information about the plant, including a physical description and details about habitat and growing conditions.The publications of Flora of Louisiana is set to coincide with the first of several international exhibitions of Stoness drawings, beginning in April, 1991.