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Common Milkweed
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This drawing of a milkweed plant was certainly not done from life. Various stages of flowering, which in reality never occur at the same time, are shown simultaneously on a single branch. The plant bears both flowers and seedpods. It is more a generic image of the milkweed than a portrait of a specific specimen. De Boodt did this deliberately to facilitate identification.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineCommon Milkweed. 1596 - 1610. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
