Wisconsin Wildflowers in 3D

David Tank

Planert Creek Press

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Note toviewers

The flower pictures in this book are designed to be viewed through red/cyan (blue) 3D glasses. With the glasses they are sharp and clear.

A Celebration of Seasonal BeautyMy goal in creating “Wisconsin Wildflowers in 3D” was not to create another field guide; there are already some excellent wildflower books available that serve that purpose. My hope was to create a book that would celebrate the seasonal beauty of wildflowers through the magic of 3D photography, which has enjoyed renewed interest due to the success of movies like “Avatar” and the introduction of 3D television. This book is a sampling of the flowers that brighten our Wisconsin landscape, loosely organized in the order that they appear, with early blooming plants in the first part of the book and late bloomers at the end. I chose to identify the plants by their common names and quickly discovered that a number of the plants go by more than one name and sometimes the same name has been given to more than one plant. The spelling of the names varied as well. When deciding which common name to use and how to spell it, I generally followed the conventions found in the Wisconsin State Her-barium’s Wisconsin Botanical Information System database. Alternate common names are presented in parentheses.I hope that you have as much fun viewing the pictures in “Wisconsin Wildflowers in 3D” as I did creating them.

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A Brief History of 3D Photography

Stereo photography is as old as photography itself. The earliest photographers created 3D images in the mid 1800s, but it wasn’t until a simple and inexpensive sterescope was created in 1861 that public interest took off. By the late 1800s, stereoscopes could be found in homes throughout the world and millions of stereoview cards were available. People could “travel the world” without leaving their parlors; some sets of pictures even came with travel guides. Events such as the Civil War and the San Francisco earthquake were popular subjects. Few pictures seem to have been taken of flowers and plants, however, possibly because color photography had yet to be developed.

• Left: The Brewster Stereoscope was the first commercially available viewer of 3D images (England, circa. early 1850s)

• Right: The Planox Stereoscope (France, 1904) (collection of the author)

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Large-flowered Trillium8”-18” tall

Blooms April-June

Found in woods and thickets.

Flowers begin white, but often

turn pink or purple as the

blooms mature.

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Bunchberry3”-8” tallBlooms

May-JulyFound in cool,

moist forests and bogs.

In the summer, the bloom is replaced

with a bunch of small, red berries.

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Ox-eye Daisy1’-3’ tallBlooms

June-AugustFound in

meadows, pastures and roadsides.

This is the perfect flower for “she

loves me, she loves me not” because

the number of petals varies

greatly from flower to flower and you can’t predict the

outcome.

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Pasture Rose (Carolina Rose)

6”-36” tallBlooms June-JulyFound in prairies, roadsides, sandy areas and upland woods.Game birds and small mammals eat the fruit, called a rose hip, helping to disperse the seeds over long distances.

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Arrowhead6”-48” tall

Blooms July-August

Found in shallow water and muddy

soil.The plant gets its

name from the shape of its leaves,

which vary from wide to narrow.

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Blue Vervain (Wild Hyssop) (Simpler’s-joy)

16”-40” tallBlooms

July-OctoberFound in sunny

prairies, meadows and streambanks.In Shakespeare’s

time, children hung vervain and a

horseshoe above their doors to keep out witches. It was

a joy for simplers (herb gatherers) to find because of its

magical properties.

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Pearly Everlasting

1’-3’ tallBlooms

July-SeptemberFound in dry woods

and fields.This native plant

works well in dried flower

arrangements. It is the host plant

for the American Painted Lady

butterfly.

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Pickerel-weed ................................................79Pitcher-plant, Purple ......................................65Pond-lily, Yellow ............................................55Prairie-smoke (Old-man’s-whiskers) .............37Puccoon, Hoary .............................................46Queen Anne’s-lace (Wild Carrot) .................. 74Quinine, Wild (American Feverfew) ...............78Ragweed, Giant .............................................92Rose, Pasture (Carolina Rose) ......................52St. John’s-wort ............................................... 75Solomon’s-seal ..............................................38Solomon’s-seal, False ...................................23Sow-thistle .....................................................98Spiderwort .....................................................39Spurge, Flowering .........................................64Spurge, Leafy (Wolf’s Milk) ...........................48Starflower ...................................................... 14Steeplebush (Hardhack) ................................90Stonecrop, Gold-moss (Yellow Sedum) ........56Sundrops, Prairie ...........................................95Sunflower, Woodland .................................... 51Sweet-clover, Yellow ..................................... 18Tansy (Golden-buttons) .................................89Tick-trefoil, Cluster-leaved .............................66Trefoil, Bird’s-foot (Deer Vetch) .....................34Trillium, Large-flowered ................................. 11Vervain, Blue (Wild Hyssop/Simpler’s-joy) .... 71Vetch, Hairy ...................................................22Virgin’s-bower (Devil’s-darning-needle) ........76Water-lily, White .............................................54Wood-sorrel, Yellow ...................................... 91Yarrow (Milfoil) ...............................................49

IndexAnemone, Canada ........................................ 19Arrowhead .....................................................67Aster, Common Blue Wood (Heart-leaved) ...93Aster, Bristly (Swamp/Purple-stemmed) .......70Bellflower, Marsh (Bedstraw Bellflower) ........96Bergamot, Wild (Bee Balm) ...........................40Bindweed, Hedge ..........................................57Black-eyed Susan .........................................26Blazing-star, Rough ..................................... 101Bouncing-bet (Soapwort) ..............................53Bunchberry .................................................... 13Bur-reed,Narrow-leaved ................................63Butter-and-eggs (Wild Snapdragon/Toadflax) ...43Buttercup, Tall ................................................20Calla, Wild (Water-arum) ............................... 16Catnip ............................................................97Chickweed, Common ..................................100Clover, Rabbit-foot .........................................85Clover, Red .................................................... 18Clover, White ................................................. 18Coneflower, Pale Purple (Prairie Coneflower) ...75Coreopsis, Prairie ..........................................82Cow-parsnip ..................................................33Crown-vetch ..................................................28Cucumber, Wild .............................................80Culver’s-root .................................................. 47Daisy, Ox-eye ................................................29Dame’s Rocket .............................................. 12Dandelion ......................................................44Dogbane, Hemp (Indian Hemp) ..................... 61Dogbane, Spreading .....................................72Evening-primrose ..........................................86Everlasting, Pearly.........................................87

Fireweed ........................................................94Fleabane, Daisy .............................................30Forget-me-not ............................................... 31Four-o’clock, Wild ..........................................62Foxglove, Yellow ............................................50Geranium, Wild (Crane’s-bill) ........................ 10Goat’s-beard, Yellow ..................................... 41Goldenrod, Bog .............................................83Goldenrod, Canada ....................................... 81Groundnut (Indian-potato) .............................88Harebell (Bellflower) ...................................... 24Hawk’s-beard, Narrow-leaved .......................45Hoary-alyssum ..............................................45Horsemint, Dotted (Spotted Bee Balm) ....... 103Indian-pipe.....................................................68Iris, Blue Flag ................................................35Jack-in-the-pulpit ........................................... 17Jewelweed, Yellow (Touch-me-not) ..............73Knapweed, Spotted .......................................69Labrador-tea .................................................. 21Lady’s-slipper, Pink (Moccasin-flower) ..........25Lead-plant (Prairie Shoestring) ................... 102Lobelia, Great Blue ........................................99Loosestrife, Purple ........................................84Lupine, Wild ...................................................36Marsh-marigold (Cowslip) ............................. 15Meadow-rue, Tall ...........................................58Meadowsweet................................................59Milkweed, Common ....................................... 42Mullein (Flannel Plant) ...................................60Parsnip, Wild .................................................32Pea, Everlasting ............................................77Phlox, Wild Blue (Wild Sweet William) ..........27