{"id":5330,"date":"2019-11-26T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=5330"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:28:29","slug":"flowers-of-mountain-and-plain","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/flowers-of-mountain-and-plain\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers of Mountain and Plain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5331\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/EC2-346x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/EC2-346x528.jpg 346w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/EC2-375x573.jpg 375w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/EC2.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/>Unusual for her time, Edith Clements (1874-1971) had a formal botanical education; she received a Ph.D. in botanical ecology from the University of Nebraska, and spent her life in various academic and research pursuits.\u00a0 Typically this was in conjunction with her husband, Frederic Clements (1874-1945), who was also a plant ecologist.\u00a0 Together, they published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1276\">Rocky Mountain Flowers<\/a>\u201d in 1914, a botanically detailed flora of the flowering plants including trees, but no conifers or ferns.\u00a0 The watercolor illustrations by Edith Clements are exquisite, typically showing several plants from the same family together.\u00a0 On her own, she later published \u201cFlowers of Mountain and Plain\u201d (1926), a book for a more general audience using many of the same illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Winter 2020 issue of the <em>Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unusual for her time, Edith Clements (1874-1971) had a formal botanical education; she received a Ph.D. in botanical ecology from the University of Nebraska, and spent her life in various academic and research pursuits.\u00a0 Typically this was in conjunction with her husband, Frederic Clements (1874-1945), who was also a plant ecologist.\u00a0 Together, they published \u201cRocky Mountain Flowers\u201d in 1914, a botanically detailed flora of the flowering plants including trees, but no conifers or ferns.\u00a0 The watercolor illustrations by Edith Clements&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/flowers-of-mountain-and-plain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flowers of Mountain and Plain<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[22,273],"class_list":["post-5330","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-reviews","keyword-wildflowers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/5330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}