What flower appears in Georgia O'Keeffe's 1936 painting named for it?

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Jimson weed appears in Georgia O'Keeffe's 1936 painting Jimson Weed.

O'Keeffe's 1936 work Jimson Weed presents the trumpet-shaped white flower at a monumental scale. Jimson weed is the common name for Datura stramonium, a plant native to the Americas that has naturalized in many regions. The plant is also toxic, so it should not be confused with an edible garden flower.

O'Keeffe often enlarged flowers so that viewers had to look closely at their forms. She said that people were too busy to look at flowers carefully, and her flower paintings made familiar subjects visually difficult to ignore.

Her flower subjects included irises, poppies, roses, and lilies as well as jimson weed. The title and botanical subject distinguish this painting from her later Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, which was made in 1932 and became famous for its auction price.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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