{"id":5333,"date":"2019-10-26T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=5333"},"modified":"2023-11-04T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T20:26:38","slug":"rocky-mountain-flowers","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/rocky-mountain-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mountain Flowers; An Illustrated Guide for Plant-Lovers and Plant-Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5334\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cc-347x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cc-347x528.jpg 347w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cc-543x825.jpg 543w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cc-375x570.jpg 375w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cc-750x1140.jpg 750w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cc.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/>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 This is not a field guide, but the watercolor illustrations by Edith Clements are exquisite, typically showing several plants from the same family together.\u00a0 On her own, she later published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1278\">Flowers of Mountain and Plain<\/a>\u201d (1926), a book for a more general audience using many of the same illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>Willa Cather was a classmate of Frederic and a good friend of Edith and it\u2019s likely their scientific knowledge influenced the environmental aspects of the novelist\u2019s writing.\u00a0 In an interview by Eleanor Hinman in the \u201cLincoln Sunday Star (November 6, 1921), Cather expressed her love of Nebraska wild flowers, concluding, \u201cThere is one book that I would rather have produced than all my novels.\u00a0 That is the Clements botany dealing with the wild flowers of the west.\u201d<\/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 This is not a field guide,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/rocky-mountain-flowers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rocky Mountain Flowers; An Illustrated Guide for Plant-Lovers and Plant-Users<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[22,273],"class_list":["post-5333","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-reviews","keyword-wildflowers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/5333"}],"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\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}