Watts, May Theilgaard
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 5
Identifier
3.24619Format
India ink on 4-ply cream boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
36.8 cm W x 50.4 cm H (Item)29.2 cm W x 45.4 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:
- Wild geranium -- Geranium maculatum
- Foam flower -- Tiarella cordifolia
- Fire pink -- Silene virginica
- Evening campion -- Lychnis alba
- Spring beauty -- Claytonia virginica
- Rough alumroot -- Heuchera hispida
- Violet wood sorrel -- Oxalis violacea
- Yellow wood sorrel -- Oxalis stricta
- Wild sarsaparilla -- Aralia nudicaulis
- Ginseng -- Panax quinquefolium
Appeared In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, nos. 4 and 5, p. 18.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
Heuchera americana L. var. hispida (Pursh) E.F. Wells (American alumroot)
Panax quinquefolius L. (American ginseng)
Tiarella cordifolia L. (heart-leaved foamflower)
Silene latifolia Poir. subsp. alba (Mill.) Greuter & Burdet (bladder campion)
Silene virginica L. (fire pink)
Oxalis dillenii Jacq. (slender yellow woodsorrel)
Claytonia virginica L. (spring beauty)
Oxalis violacea L. (violet woodsorrel)
Geranium maculatum L. (wild geranium)
Aralia nudicaulis L. (wild sarsparilla)
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