A Celebration of Ross-Craig
Observation - A Celebration of Ross-Craig - Global. Description: Stella Ross Craig This post in to commemorate Stella Ross-Craig 1906 – 2006. . Ross-Craig was a bot
Stella Ross Craig
This post in to commemorate Stella Ross-Craig 1906 – 2006.
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Ross-Craig was a botanical artist whose Drawings of British Plants is, to my mind, unsurpassed.
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The work, comprising 31 volumes, was described by Edward Salisbury, (Kew 1943 to 1956). “ Miss Ross-Craig’s representations are a happy combination of artistic portraiture and scientific accuracy.”
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Ross-Craig often drew from preserved dried specimens kept at Kew, and she worked in black and white.
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The first photo of this post is Myosotis alpestris Schmidt, from Ross-Craig* chosen to support another recent iSpot post by which has gathered comments. https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/global/view/observation/816805/alpine-flowers-3
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High level alpine Myosotis species, specifically M alpestris and M. alpina, may be relics from the ice age. Stace has the British M. alpestris as “Native; mountain slopes and ledges, 700-1200m; very local.”
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The two species are, in current flora, readily distinguished (hand lens) by details of hairs on the calyx and leaves.
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However, there has been some nomenclature changes over the years with several similar names may have been allocated to these populations in western Europe.
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M. alpestris is listed in the Pyrénées according to Saule, La Flore des Pyrénées. http://www.lafloredespyrenees.fr/boraginacgenres/myosotisalpes/myosotisalpes5.html
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My own records show I have identified M. alpestris in French Vanoise, Dolomites, Switzerland and Andorra; unfortunaely I have no photo.
I have no personal record of M. alpina.
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Ref * Ross-Craig, S., (1965) Drawings of British Plants. Part XX1.Bell, G & Sons, London. This is where I have placed the post location, hoping to relocate later to my own record in Andorra. We will see if this ‘trick’, given to me by dejay, works.
This post in to commemorate Stella Ross-Craig 1906 – 2006.
.
Ross-Craig was a botanical artist whose Drawings of British Plants is, to my mind, unsurpassed.
.
The work, comprising 31 volumes, was described by Edward Salisbury, (Kew 1943 to 1956). “ Miss Ross-Craig’s representations are a happy combination of artistic portraiture and scientific accuracy.”
.
Ross-Craig often drew from preserved dried specimens kept at Kew, and she worked in black and white.
.
The first photo of this post is Myosotis alpestris Schmidt, from Ross-Craig* chosen to support another recent iSpot post by which has gathered comments. https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/global/view/observation/816805/alpine-flowers-3
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High level alpine Myosotis species, specifically M alpestris and M. alpina, may be relics from the ice age. Stace has the British M. alpestris as “Native; mountain slopes and ledges, 700-1200m; very local.”
.
The two species are, in current flora, readily distinguished (hand lens) by details of hairs on the calyx and leaves.
.
However, there has been some nomenclature changes over the years with several similar names may have been allocated to these populations in western Europe.
.
.
M. alpestris is listed in the Pyrénées according to Saule, La Flore des Pyrénées. http://www.lafloredespyrenees.fr/boraginacgenres/myosotisalpes/myosotisalpes5.html
.
My own records show I have identified M. alpestris in French Vanoise, Dolomites, Switzerland and Andorra; unfortunaely I have no photo.
I have no personal record of M. alpina.
.
Ref * Ross-Craig, S., (1965) Drawings of British Plants. Part XX1.Bell, G & Sons, London. This is where I have placed the post location, hoping to relocate later to my own record in Andorra. We will see if this ‘trick’, given to me by dejay, works.