Georgia O'Keeffe's 1936 painting featuring a jimson weed flower is titled Jimson Weed, also known as Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.
The painting presents a large white jimson weed blossom against a dark background. O'Keeffe often enlarged flowers so that viewers had to confront their shapes and textures directly. She explained that making flowers large helped people notice them, since many hurried past small natural details.
The work was painted in 1936 and became one of O'Keeffe's best-known flower images. Jimson weed is a common name for Datura, a plant with trumpet-shaped flowers. The plant is toxic, so the painting's subject is visually delicate but botanically associated with danger.
The title is sometimes shortened to Jimson Weed, while museum records may use the fuller title Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1. It is different from O'Keeffe's Black Iris and Red Canna series, which feature other flowers.