Botanical Illustrator

Aquatic Plants:

Eelgrass with long ribbonlike green leaves and curling slender stems, illustrated in watercolor pencil and watercolor.

Eel grass (Vallisneria americana), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine
Eelgrass Illustration, for FLW Outdoors Magazine

About eel grass:
Eel grass is also referred to as tape grass (tapegrass). It is a submersed aquatic perennial plant. Eelgrass is native in the United States.

Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class: Liliopsida (monocotyledons or monocots, having one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in the seed)
Order: Alismatales
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Genus: Vallisneria

More information about Eelgrass:
Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plants
Submersed Plants

Eelgrass (Vallisneria americana), also called tape grass, is a submersed aquatic perennial native to the United States. Gina painted it in watercolor pencil and watercolor for FLW Outdoors Magazine, one of a series of North American aquatic plants. Long ribbonlike leaves loosely cluster from the base, bending and crossing, each blade a separate green wash against an open ground.