Illustrated printable: Describing wildflowers
Some botanical basics to help you label your sketches
Every subject area has its specialized language, a tool to describe or label very specific things. If I told you I saw a 14 hand blue roan Connemara with an off fore coronet, I’m using specialized language to describe a grey pony who stands 56 inches at the shoulder and has a ring of white around the top of the right front hoof.
It’s the same with wildflowers. I can say that a leaf is the shape of a kidney, or I can say it’s a reniform leaf. To label a drawing in your sketchbook, basic botanical terminology can be helpful. Here’s a printable to help you label leaf and flower shapes:
