Botanical Illustrator

Aquatic Plants:

Coontail sprig with branching green stems and dense whorls of forked leaves, in watercolor pencil and watercolor.

Coontail (Ceratophyllum demersum), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine
Coontail, for FLW Outdoors Magazine

About Coontail:
Coontail is also referred to as hornwort. It is a submersed aquatic rootless (free-floating) plant. It is native in the United States. It grows in slow-moving waters.

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class: Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons)
Order: Ceratophyllales
Family: Ceratophyllaceae
Genus: Ceratophyllum
Species: Ceratophyllum demersum

More information about Coontail:
Coontail
Ceratophyllum demersum

Coontail (Ceratophyllum demersum), also called hornwort, is a rootless, free-floating submersed plant native to the United States. Gina painted it in watercolor pencil and watercolor in 2007 for FLW Outdoors Magazine, part of a series on aquatic plants. One sprig on a bent stem carries whorls of fine forked leaves in soft gray-green washes.