Watts, May Theilgaard
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 1
Identifier
3.24615Format
India ink on 4-ply cream boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
36.8 cm W x 55.6 cm H (Item)29.6 cm W x 36 cm H (Platemark or image size)
Extent
1 sheetType
DrawingDate created
1944Description
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
Appeared In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, nos. 4 and 5, p. 14.Subject - keywords and LC headings
Flowers--AnatomyForest 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)
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