La Florida, or "the flowery one" was a name bestowed upon this region by Ponce de Leon, who arrived to a land covered in lush vegetation. Named to celebrate the flowery native foliage, contemporary Florida looks wildly different from the days of the first European discoverers. Urban metropolises and lands cultivated for modern agriculture now dot our landscape, and carefully tended lawns leave no space for the flowers of old--plants now cast as weeds. But if you look in unexpected places in developed areas, like ditches and city rights of way, you can see evidence of the land of flowers that became this region's namesake. Though urban development is a large part of the contemporary Florida story, so is conservation. Parks and preserves are places where the abundance of natural foliage is protected and can still be enjoyed by the public. Sown is series of cyanotype plant portraits that captures, indexes, and celebrates the flora observed in the four preserves studied as a part of the Still-Wilds project.