Illustrated plant diagrams

Here is a small collection of illustrated plant diagrams. Two events happened this week that encouraged me to put these images together. (1) A beautiful thread on Twitter this past week between @DanChitwood @jrossibarra and @rubenrellan. (2) Anna Davidson, bio art extraordinaire, suggesting to a new PhD student to keep track of all their favorite plant diagrams they encounter in graduate school. Why didn’t I do that? So I thought today, better late then never and started putting together a resource that I can keep adding to that captures my favorite/important botanical illustrations. Somehow I seem to loose track of illustrations and diagrams that have blown my mind over a life time and it is due time to attempt to keep track of them. I thought this twitter thread would be a good start. Maybe I can organize them more appropriately as they grow. I also have been collecting links to sites that have collections of free botanical illustration if you check out the Resources section below. Let me know if you know of any other diagrams or resources!

Images

1854 Leaf Development in a Broad Diversity of Eudicotyledonous Flowering Plants.Plate from Schacht. via Friedman and Diggle, 2011

1853 Leaf Development in Diverse Monocotyledonous Flowering Plants. Plate from Trécul via Friedman and Diggle, 2011

1857 Floral Development.Plate from Payer. via Friedman and Diggle, 2011

Floral Organ Development in Lavatera trimestris of the Malvaceae (from Duchartre, 1845). via Friedman and Diggle, 2011

The Plant Archetype by P.J.F. Turpin Appeared in an 1837 Edition of Goethe’s Works on Natural History Published in France (Goethe, 1837) via Friedman and Diggle, 2011