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Watts, May Theilgaard

Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters

Identifier
3.24608
Format
Black India ink on 4-ply cream board. 
Digitization Status
Digitized
Reproduction:
Original
Dimensions
36.2 cm W x 53.2 cm H (Item)
29.3 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
Extent
1 sheet
Type
Drawing
Date created
1944
Description
Illustrations depicting four groups of staminate and pistillate flowers with associated outline of six trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time. 

Header: Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters

Illustrations are separated into four sections, from top to bottom:

Section 1: Pistillate and Staminate Flowers on Different Trees

(depicted from left to right)
  • White ash -- Fraxinus americana
  • Box-elder -- Acer negundo
Section 2: Pistillate and Staminate Flowers in separate clusters on same tree, or in same cluster, or on different trees 

(depicted from left to right)
  • Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
  • Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
Section 3: Flowers borne in spherical heads
  • Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
Section 4: Flowers contain both pistil and stamens
  • American elm -- Ulmus americana 
Appeared In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, vol.19, no.3, March 1944, p.11.
Subject - keywords and LC headings
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Ulmus americana L. (American elm)
Acer negundo L. (boxelder)
Acer saccharinum L. (silver maple)
Acer saccharum Marsh. (sugar maple)
Platanus occidentalis L. (sycamore)
Fraxinus americana L. (white ash)
Related Collections
Artwork
Language
English