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Watts, May Theilgaard

Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 1

3.24615
India ink on 4-ply cream board
Digitized
Original
36.8 cm W x 55.6 cm H (Item)
29.6 cm W x 36 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
1944
Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.

Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
  • Skunk cabbage -- Symplocarpus foetidus
  • Jack-in-the-pulpit -- Arisaema triphyllum
  • Green dragon -- Arisaema dracontium
  • Purple trillium (wake-robin) -- Trillium recurvatum
  • Shy trillium -- Trillium declinatum
  • Large-flowered trillium -- Trillium grandiflorum 
Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art. 
 
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, nos. 4 and 5, p. 14.
Flowers--Anatomy
Forest plants
Leaves--Anatomy
Plants--Identification
Wild flowers
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Trillium grandiflorum (Michx.) Salisb. (great white trillium)
Arisaema dracontium (L.) Schott (green dragon)
Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott (Jack-in-the-pulpit)
Trillium recurvatum Beck (red trillium)
Symplocarpus foetidus (L.) W. Salisb. (skunk-cabbage)
Trillium vaseyi Harbison (sweet wakerobin)
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 2
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 3
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 4
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 5
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 7
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 6
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor: A Glossary of Terms Used in this Key
Artwork
English
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