Format
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 sheetDescription
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.