Montana Wildflowers
photography by D. Linnell Blank
text by D. Linnell Blank
published by Farcountry Press
- In photographs and text, D. Linnell Blank portrays the rich panorama of wildflowers in the Big Sky country of Montana. Divided into three vegetation zones, Montana Wildflowers is a testament to Blank's skill as a photographer as well as the beauty of the state's abundant flora.
See the swaying white beargrass of Glacier National Park, the flowering yellow prickly pear of the plains, and the delicate pink bloom of Montana's state flower, the bitterroot.
80 pages, 9 1/8'' x 8 1/8'', 109 color photos, 50 softcovers per case, Smythe-sewn
softcover
ISBN 10: 1560373687
ISBN 13: 9781560373681
$9.95
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| Montana Wildflowers |
| "Bitterroot, Lewisia rediviva, beside the Missouri River at the foot of the Big Belt Mountains. Bitterroot is called Lewisia rediviva because early botanists had a difficult time trying to preserve the plant for study. On his return trip in 1806, Meriwether Lewis dug up a plant and carefully labeled, pressed, and dried it. A year and 3,000 miles later, he presented it to botanists in Philadelphia. When they examined it, the bitterroot had begun to sprout! The name "Lewisia" is in honor of Captain Lewis and "rediviva" means "restored to life."
-from page 35 "Fuzzytongue penstemon, Penstemon eriantherus, mid-July, Garnet Range. Penstemons are showy flowers in an actively evolving genus. There are 30 different species in Montana, and some of them hybridize with each other and create chaos for taxonomists, whose challenging job it is to classify living things."
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D. Linnell Blank's photographs have appeared in Whitefish Magazine and Montana Magazine, and her work has been exhibited at the Artistic Touch Gallery and the Hockaday Museum of Art. |