Georgia O'Keeffe painted the jimson weed in her famous 1936 work Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.
The painting presents a large white jimson weed flower against a light background. Its enormous scale and tightly framed composition are characteristic of O'Keeffe's flower paintings, which ask viewers to look closely at forms that might otherwise be overlooked.
Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 became especially notable in 2014, when it sold at auction for $44.4 million. That sale set a record for the highest price paid at auction for a work by a female artist at the time. The record later changed as other works reached higher prices.
The title is sometimes shortened to Jimson Weed, but the full title identifies it as White Flower No. 1. It should not be confused with O'Keeffe's iris, poppy, or red-canna paintings, which depict different flowers.