Enjoy beautiful illustrations of flora growing at Pittsburgh Botanic Garden's!

Now open in Phipps' Welcome Center Gallery, plant lovers of all ages can enjoy stunning illustrations of plants growing at the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. Pittsburgh Botanic Garden's Native Plants is part of the Flora Project, a collaboration between Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden's Botanical Art and Illustration Program and the Allegheny Highlands Botanical Art Society.

Native plants play an important role in our ecosystem, having evolved complex and specific relationships with insects that, in turn, play an essential role in our local food chain. This year’s Flora project gave participants the opportunity to select native plants growing at the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden's as well as to visit the gardens. Pittsburgh Botanic Garden’s mission is to inspire people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions. Flora participants used a variety of different mediums ranging from graphite, colored pencil, watercolor and pen and ink to create their plant portraits.

For more information regarding the Phipps Botanical Illustration Program or other adult classes, please call 412-441-4442 ext. 3925 or visit phipps.conservatory.org. 

Northern maidenhair fern (Adiantum peltatum), illustration by Abby Krick 
 

Carolina Silverbell (Halesia carolina), illlustration by Betty Yee Yates
 

Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), illustration by Betsy Doherty
 

Grey birch (Betula populifolia), illustration by Carole Taylor
 

Spotted bee balm (Mondarda punctata), illustration by Carol Watkins
 

Sweetbay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana), illustration by Catherine Park
 

Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), illustration by Elsa Arce
 

Spicebush (Lindera benzoin), illustration by Eryn Hughes  
 

Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia), illustration by Gloria Rogulin Blake
 

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium 'Apple Blossom'), illustration by Iza Kubanowska
 

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa), illustration by Janet Wilson 
 

Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia 'Keepsake'), illustration by Jim Hansotte
 

American holly (llex opaca 'Mary Holman'), illustration by Linda Hykes
 

Northern bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera), illustration by Linda Tobin
 

Paw Paw (Asimina triloba), illustration by Lori Grunick
 

Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis), illustration by Maria Joseph
 

Wood lily (Trillium recurvatum), illustration by Mary Medlin
 

Beardtongue (Penstemon 'Husker Red'), illustration by Mary Reefer
 

Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica), illustration by Michele Bamburak
 

Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), illustration by Pam DeSimone Romeo
 

Strawberry bush (Euonyms americanus), illustration by Raana Flemm
 

Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica), illustration by Robin Menard
 

Great white trillium (Trillium grandiflorium), illustration by Rosemarie Mazza

For more information regarding Phipps' Botanical Art and Illustration Program or other adult classes, please visit phipps.conservatory.org/Learn or call 412-441-4442 ext. 3925.