seed

Wildflower meadow full of Corncockle, Cornflower, Corn marigold, Corn chamomile, Corncockle, honey bees, a Common blue butterfly, and a Red-tailed bumblebee.  Design for a seed packet producer.

Norway spruce Picea abies cone and individual seed

Ivy-leaved water crowfoot Ranunculus hederaceus showing sprawling habit

Monocot seedling showing seed, emergent leaves, and root

Eudicot seedling showing paired cotyledon leaves, seed, and root.

Eudicot and monocot seedling comparison showing cotyledon leaves on the eudicot and furled parallel-veined leaves of the monocot.

Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum with Puccinia smyrnii rust on some leaves, and detail of one flower and one seed.

Blue bonnet Lupin Lupinus polyphyllus sketchbook study page.  Includes information on  habit, cross section of flower, seed pods, and leaf venation.

Germinating seed from a grain through six stages to show how the cotelydon leaves emerge and the roots grow

Comparison of the tiny seeds of plants such as poppy to the much larger enormous seeds of plants like the broad bean

Mixing tiny seeds in with some sand so you don’t lose the seeds and can see where you have sowed or broadcast them on the soil