From a Summer Meadow

Identifier3.24613

TypeDrawing

Date created1945

DescriptionIllustrations of various meadow leaves, seeds, and flowers with descriptive text next to each image, created to accompany "Let's Look At A Meadow" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.

Header: From A Summer Meadow

Illustrations are divided into three sections, from top to bottom:

Section 1 - LEAVES with protection (depicted from left to right)

• from a too thristy sun
  • Queen Anne's lace - reduced surface
  • Prickly lettuce - compass habit
  • Milkweed - milky juice
  • Mullein (overlapped in next section) - felty covering
• from hungry cattle
  • Mullein (overlapped in previous section) - felty covering
  • Yarrow - bitter taste
  • Thistle - spines

Section 2 -  SEEDS equipped for travel (depicted from left to right)

• by air
  • Milkweed
  • Fleabane
  • Goatsbeard
  • Thistle
  • Dandelion
• by fur
  • Barbs of grasses (enlarged)
  • Spanish needle
  • Cocklebur
  • Burdock

Section 3 - Flowers with cooperative communities (depicted from left to right)

• Aster
• Fleabane
• Brown-eyed susan
• Chicory
• Sneezeweed

Appeared InMorton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 20, no. 8, p. 35.

LanguageEnglish