Watts, May Theilgaard
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 4
Identifier
3.24618Format
India ink on 4-ply cream boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
37 cm W x 52.5 cm H (Item)29.6 cm W x 46 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:
- White baneberry -- Actaea alba
- Bloodroot -- Sanguinaria canadensis
- May-apple -- Podophyllum peltatum
- Wild columbine -- Aquilegia canadensis
- Wild strawberry -- Fragaria virginiana
- Cinquefoil -- Potentilla canadensis
- Small-flowered crowfoot -- Ranunculus abortivus
- Swamp buttercup -- Ranunculus septentrionalis
- Blue cohosh -- Caulophyllum thalictroides
- Toothwort -- Dentaria laciniata
- Spring cress -- Cardamine bulbosa
Appeared In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, nos. 4 and 5, p. 13-20.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
Actaea pachypoda Elliott (white baneberry)
Aquilegia canadensis L. (columbine)
Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx. (blue cohosh)
Fragaria virginiana Mill. (wild strawberry)
Podophyllum peltatum L. (mayapple)
Ranunculus hispidus var. nitidus (Chapm.) T. Duncan (bristly buttercup)
Sanguinaria canadensis L. (bloodroot)
Cardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. (bulbous bittercress)
Ranunculus abortivus L. (littleleaf buttercup)
Cercis L. (redbud)
Cardamine concatenata (Michx.) O.Schwarz (toothwort)
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