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[Sonchus platylepis growing on rocky cliff]

Description: Habit photograph of common sow thistle, scientific name Sonchus platylepis, growing on the side of a rocky cliff. The plant is pictured in the foreground, and its flowers are yellow and its leaves serrated. Behind the plant to the right, there is a noticeable absence of light.
Date: May 8, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Unidentified small shrub in Arguineguin, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified small shrub growing on scrubby, rocky surface. The plant as a thick stalk with branches and needle-like green leaves. On the right is an unidentified tree. A mountain built from remanent lava beds is in the background.
Date: May 18, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Limonium spectabile from Jardín Botánico Canario, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of Limonium spectabile from Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo, Canary Islands. The plant grows among rocks and grasses in a clump with basal rosette of leaves with tints of red at the tips. Leaves are lanceolate with texture. Numerous small papery purple flowers are densley packed at the top of leafless stems.
Date: May 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Phoenix canariensis from Jardín Botánico Canario, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of Phoenix canariensis (Canary date palm) trees growing on the edges of a large open area paved with irregular-shaped stone and grass in the Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo, Canary Islands. A scrubby hill is in the background.
Date: May 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Prenanthes pendula from Arguineguin, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of Prenanthes pendula growing on rocky crevices in Arguineguin, Canary Islands. A mature example with woody stalks which are slender, unbranched, brown in color. The leaves alternate along the stem and are more dense at the top and sparse towards the base. The leaves are dull-green colored with lobed margins. A withered cluster of flowers can be seen at the top of one of the stems.
Date: May 18, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Landscape of Gran Canarla Island, Canary Islands] BRIT-A-AR003-001-02-094

Description: Landscape photograph of mountainside on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands. Stratigraphic layers of light and dark colored basalt lava beds from past volcanic activity are visible, along with eroded sedimentary deposits in the foreground. Grasses, shrubs, and pine trees grow in the more eroded layers of the dry rocky mountainside.
Date: May 18, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Landscape of Tamadaba Natural Park, Canary Islands]

Description: Landscape photograph of ocean, mountain, and a partial view of Pinus canariensis (Canary Island pine) in the foreground. The summit view shows clouds and the coastline Tenerife Island and the peak of Mount Teide across the ocean on the horizon.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Limonium redivivum from Jardin Botanicao Canario, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of Limonium redivivum on a rocky surface. The plant has oblong-shaped leaves at the base and more linear oval-shaped leaves along the flower stalk. The pink-colored flower buds and purple bloomed flowers grow in clusters at the top of the stalk.
Date: 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Sonchus pinnatus growing on La Palma Island, #1]

Description: Photograph of a sonchus pinnatus with small, yellow flowers. The plant is growing out of a rocky area located in La Palma Island in the Canary Islands, Spain.
Date: June 14, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Sonchus pinnatus growing on La Palma Island, #2]

Description: Photograph of a sonchus pinnatus with small, yellow flowers. The plant is growing out of a rocky area located in La Palma Island in the Canary Islands, Spain.
Date: June 14, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Carlina canariensis in Arguineguin, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of Carlina canariensis from Arguineguin, Grand Canaria Island. Three buds are at the center with radiating spiky leaves in rust-colored rocky soil.
Date: May 12, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Landcape of Arguineguin, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of a rocky mountainside covered with shrubby vegetation, palm trees, and pine trees.
Date: May 12, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Landscape of a mountain and village on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of a mountain village on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands. There are two goats grazing in the foreground. Behind them are concrete buildings and dwellings with and red-tile roofs and cultivated plots of land. A mountain made of remanent lava flows with characteristic erosion ravines along its face is in the background.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Cheiranthus scoparius on rocky hillside on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of dry, rocky hillside with shrubby clumps of Cheiranthus scoparius with light purple colored flowers. A pine tree is in partial view in the top left corner and other unidentified plants with long stalks with yellow flower at the top.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Cytinus hypocistus in Tamadaba Natural Park, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of a small clump of Cytinus hypocistis (Yellow cytinus) growing in dry, rocky soil. The flowers are cream-colored and each have four petals with a protruding round center. There are not green parts or leaves to this plant.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Landscape of montane scrub and remanent lava flows in Tamadaba Natural Park, Canary Islands]

Description: Landscape photograph of Tamadaba Natural Park from an elevated view on a mountain footpath. The foreground shows the footpath, surrounded by grasses and shrubby bushes with yellow flowers. In the background is a barren, dark-colored mountain built by remanent lava flows.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Descurainia preauxiana from Soria, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of Descurainia preauxiana on a dry exposed cliff face. The plant has thin stems with no flowers and woody branches at the base with linear-shaped green leaves.
Date: May 18, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Nanorrhinum scoparium from Maspalomas, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of Nanorrhinum scoparium stem with three yellow flower in bloom and many alternating buds along its slender stalk.
Date: May 18, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Unidentified shrub-like plant with yellow flowers]

Description: Photograph of a unidentified shrub with dark green leaves and mustard-yellow colored flowers taken at Tamadaba Natural Park (El Parque Natural de Tamadaba).
Date: 1967-05-10~
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Ixanthus viscosus on La Palma Island, #1]

Description: Close-up photograph of the flowers growing on an Ixanthus viscosus on La Palma Island in the Canary Islands. There are small, yellow-orange, star-shaped flowers growing on leafy branches.
Date: June 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Ixanthus viscosus on La Palma Island, #2]

Description: Close-up photograph of the flowers growing on an Ixanthus viscosus on La Palma Island in the Canary Islands. There are small, yellow-orange, star-shaped flowers growing on leafy branches.
Date: June 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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