AMERICAN POISON PLANT: Ivy Hemlock Poke Jimson loco-weed Laurel Sumac, 1907
'American Poisonous Plants; 1. Poison Ivy (Rhus radicans); a, spray showing aerial rootlets and leaves; b, fruit; 2. Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum), showing flowers and seed; 3. Water Hemlock (Cicuta maculata), showing section of spindle-shaped root and lower stem, the leaves, flowers, and fruit; (Phytolacca decandra); 5. Stemless Loco-weed (Aragallus lambertii), in flower; 6. Broad-leaf Laurel (Kalmia latifolia): a. flowering spray; b, vertical section of flower showing peculiar attachment of stamens (enlarged); c, fruiting capsules; 7. Poison Sumac (Rhus vernix), showing leaves and fruit; 8. Jimson-weed (Datura stramonium); a, flowering spray; b, fruiting capsule; 9. Woolly Loco-weed (Astragalus mollissimus)'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Unsigned. Provenance: "The Americana "; Editor-in-Chief Frederick Converse Beach, Managing Editor George Edwin Rines, Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep't, New York. Type: Colour antique print.
Size: 1576px × 2292px
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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