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• 1 2024-03-20T19:34:54-04:00 (Plant) Family Portraits 60 structured_gallery 2025-10-15T17:44:41-04:00 Back to Odes(s)a in Bloom
  
  The plants described in the Flora Odessa belong to 87 different families. As you can see from the bubble viz below, the distribution was anything but even. Your eye will be drawn at first to the Sunflowers, Legumes, and Mustards, but use the filter to draw out the more boutique families: sometimes, and especially in the world of biodiversity studies, rarity and significance go hand in hand.
  
  Note: The same data appears twice: if you prefer common English plant family names, the purple bubbles are for you. If you prefer Latin, start with the green. Rest your cursor on any bubble to see the corresponding name. 
  
  To make the families more relatable we collected botanical illustrations from the open-access Biodiversity Heritage Library, Harvard's CURIOSity Digital Collections, the Royal Botanic Gardens' Plants of the World Online, and from plantillustrations.org. Each family attested in the Flora is represented by the illustration of a single species. Hover over an image to reveal the family name or click to open the media file. 
  
  Each illustration contains a source link to the digital edition of the original publication, where you can learn more about the author/artist(s) and admire a wider variety of illustrations for each plant family. For geographic accuracy, we chose an illustration of a species that actually occurs in Ukraine.
   
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  Project Team

  Jackie Erlon-Baurjan, Davit Gasparyan, Olga Kiyan, Kelly O'Neill, Paul Vădan

  Primary Source

  П. С. Шестериков. Материалы для флоры юго-западной части Одесскаго уезда Херсонской губернии. Одесса: Тип. А. Шульце, 1894.

  "Splash" Image

  The splash image is a painting called "The Dnipro/Dnieper in the Morning" by Arkhip Kuindzhi (1881). The original painting is at the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow. The digital image is available in the public domain. 

  Cite the Project

  Kelly O'Neill, "Odes(s)a in Bloom." Imperiia: A Spatial History of the Russian Empire. https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/odessa-in-bloom. [Date accessed] 

  This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0