Marion Satterlee

[4] For How to Know the Wild Flowers—which was the first field guide to North American wildflowers and a great popular success that stayed in print into the 1940s[5]—she created 110 full-page black-and-white illustrations, which were complemented by color plates by Elsie Louise Shaw.

[2] The writer and New Yorker editor Katharine Sergeant Angell White, writing many decades later, termed the book a classic and remarked on the excellence of Satterlee's line drawings.

[6] For How to Know the Ferns, Satterlee and a second artist, Alice Josephine Smith, created 42 full-page plates and over two dozen smaller black-and-white illustrations from pen drawings.

(The illustrations include initials, either a.j.s or MS, to identify the artist of each drawing.)

Given the social circles she moved in as a friend of Parsons, she may be the Marion Satterlee who was a sister of lawyer and government official Herbert L.