Georgia O'Keeffe painted a jimson weed flower in her 1936 work Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.
The painting presents a single white jimson weed blossom in extreme close-up. O'Keeffe enlarged flowers so that their forms filled the canvas, encouraging viewers to notice curves, folds, shadows, and subtle changes in color. The result is recognizable but also approaches abstraction.
Jimson weed is a real plant, also called Datura stramonium. It has trumpet-shaped flowers and is poisonous, so it should not be treated as an edible or harmless garden plant. O'Keeffe's painting focuses on its visual structure, not its toxicity.
The work became especially famous after it sold at auction in 2014 for $44.4 million, then a record price for a painting by a female artist. It is often confused with O'Keeffe's large paintings of poppies, irises, and calla lilies.