BEAUTIFUL WILDFLOWERS - A Garland of Favorite American Wildflowers - With 20 Watercolors by Nanae Ito

Sep 29, 2026

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A garland of favorite American wildflowers presents 20 carefully rendered watercolors by artist Nanae Ito, inviting readers to discover blossoms found along roadsides, woodland edges, riverbanks, and fields. It emphasizes that no one has seen every wildflower and that many remain unnamed, framing wildflowers as a national heritage of beauty. Devotees, lovers of art, and readers of botanical legends are guided through the colorful history of selected flowers.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages72

Reading Time1 h 51 min

AccessFree to download

Introduction

Illustrations

Bloodroot

Common Blue violet

Butter-and-Eggs

Buttercup

Dutchman's Breeches

Fringed Gentian

Goldenrod

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Large Blue Flag

Lily-of-the-valley

Painted cup

Pasqueflower

showy Lady's slipper

spiderwort

Common sunflower

swamp Thistle

Sweet-Brier Rose

wild columbine

wood Lily

wood-vetch

Lilies of the Field

BEAUTIFUL WILDFLOWERS AGarland of Favorite American Wildflowerswith 20Watercolors by Nanae Ito # BEAUTIFULWILDFLOWERS A Garland of FavoriteAmerican WildfowersWith 20Watercolorsby Nanae Ito At roadsides,on the edges ofwoods,on riverbanks andin fieldswildflowers brighten the earthwith every color and form.Noone has seen every Americanwildflower;some have not yeteven been named.They compriseanational heritageofbeauty wait-ing to be discovered. Wildflower devotees will findnew pleasure in this fresh sam-pling of America's most unusualand most beautiful blossoms.Lovers of beauty will enjoy theexquisite watercolors of giftedJapanese artist Nanae Ito.Andthose whotreasurethelegendsandlore of flowers will journey onceagain in fascination through theircolorful history. Of course,some wildfowersare everyone's favorite—the del-icate Blue Violet,the bright But-tercup,the shy Jack-in-the-Pul-pit,the amusing Dutchman's(continued on back) 6 Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation # Beautiful wild flowers | BEAUTIFUL
WILDFLOWERS
A Garland of
American Wildflowers
With 20Watercolors
by Nanae Ito
HALLMARK EDITIONS | | --- | Edited by BeteBishop Mildred E.Mathias,ph.D.,Department of Botany,The university of california at LoS Angeles,Technical consultant llustrations in"Liliesofthe Field"reproduced courtesy of theLinda Hall Library,Kansas city,Missouri. copyright o I968 by Hallmark cards inc,,Kansas city,Missouri.All Rights Reserved.Printed in the United states of America.Library of congress catalog card Number:68-16435. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION5ILLUSTRATIONSI Bloodroot 9II Common Blue violet IIIII Butter-and-Eggs I3IV ButtercupISV Dutchman's Breeches I7VI Fringed Gentian I9VII Goldenrod 2IVIII Jack-in-the-Pulpit 23IX Large Blue Flag 25X Lily-of-the-valley 27XI Painted cup 29XII Pasqueflower3IXII showy Lady's slipper 33XIV spiderwort 35XV Common sunflower37XVI swamp Thistle 39XVII Sweet-Brier Rose4IXVIII wild columbine 43XIX wood Lily 45XX wood-vetch47 LILIES OF THE FIELD 49

FAQs

What kind of artwork does the book include?

The book features exquisite watercolors depicting favorite American wildflowers by Nanae Ito.

Where can readers find the wildflowers described in the book?

The text mentions wildflowers brightening roadsides, the edges of woods, riverbanks, and fields.

How does the book encourage readers to think about American wildflowers?

It highlights that no one has seen every American wildflower and notes that some are unnamed, presenting wildflowers as a heritage of beauty waiting to be discovered.

Sep 29, 2026

Uploaded by McQueen