About the Maker: Serena Niesley is an artist, illustrator, designer, and poet based out of Philadelphia, PA. Serena’s art practice is primarily in gouache, watercolor, and digital illustration, but also dips into other media such as fabric, film, and photography. In all of her work, she strives to draw a line between beauty, spirituality, and connections of nature and community. The images she creates are folk-inspired and deeply rooted in place.
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About the Print: This notecard represents historical Medicinal Plants, of mixed indigenous and colonial use, each featured in Bartram’s Appendix to Thomas Short's Medicina Britanica, 1751. Thanks to research by curator Joel Fry and horticultural work by gardener Mandy Katz, specimens are actively cultivated throughout Bartram’s Garden today.
The plants illustrated and represented on the card are as follows:
1. Blazing-Star (Devil’s-bit) Chamaelirium luteum (L.) A. Gray, fairywand, devil’s bit
2. Aralia (Spikenard, Wild Liquorice) Aralia racemosa L., American spikenard
3. Virga-aurea (a kind of Golden Rod) Solidago caesia L., bluestem goldenrod, wreath goldenrod
4. Apocinum Asclepias tuberosa L., butterfly milkweed
5. Liriodendrum (Poplar) Liriodendron tulipifera L., tuliptree
6. Chelidonium or Sanguinaria (Red Root, Turmerick) Sanguinaria canadensis L., bloodroot
7. Erigeron Erigeron pulchellus Michx., robin’s plantain
8. Star-grass Aletris farinosa L., white colicroot
Print measures 8"x10".