Format
India ink on 4-ply cream boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
37.2 cm W x 51 cm H (Item)
29.7 cm W x 46 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:
- Trout lily -- Erythronium albidum
- Wild garlic -- Allium canadense
- Wild leek -- Allium tricoccum
- Carrion flower -- Smilax herbacea
- Bellwort -- Uvularia grandiflora
- Small solomon seal -- Polygonatum biflorum
- Great solomon seal -- Polygonatum commutatum
- Starry solomonplume -- Smilacina stellata
- Feather solomonplume -- Smilacina racemosa
Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art.