botanical art

Juk juk or Culantro Eryngium foetidum pen and ink line drawing

Gumbo-limbo or copperwood Bursera simaruba with detail of flowers and peeling bark

Gumbo-limbo or copperwood Bursera simaruba line drawing

Davis root or David’s milkberry Chiocacca alba showing detail on one flower and plant in bloom and fruit

Davis root or David’s milkberry Chiocacca alba pen and ink line drawing

Cattle tongue or Cough bush Pluchea carolinensis watercolour

Cattle tongue or Cough bush Pluchea carolinensis pen and ink line drawing

Bush tea or Quickstick Gliricidia sepium showing plant and a detail of one flower

Bush tea or Quickstick Gliricidia sepium line drawing

Blue vervain or Blue porterweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis watercolour illustration with detail of individual flower

Blue vervain or Blue porterweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis pen and ink line illustration

Aloe vera plant showing leaves and flowering spike

Aloe vera pen and ink line drawing showing the plant in flower  

Apple with leaf attached to stalk.  Another half apple sits in front of the main apple.

Common or Black Knapweed Centaura nigra, showing diverse leaf shape and typical spherical, purple flowering heads.

Honeysuckle berries Lonicera pericylmenum with leaves and showing these bright, shiny berries.

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum showing two blooms with twisting stems.

California Yerba santa Eriodictyon californicum leaf shape

Hairy Yerba santa leaf shapes E trichocalyx var lanatum, showing margins and venation

Hairy Yerba santa Eriodictyon leaf shapes E trichocalyx var trichocalyx showing margins and venation

Narrow-leaved Yerba santa Eriodictyon angustifolium leaf shape, showing margins and venation

California Yerba santa Eriodictyon californicum with individual flower detail

Hairy Yerba santa Eriodictyon trichocalyx var. lanatum