Morton Arboretum : Drawing : Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 7 [3.24620]

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Watts, May Theilgaard

Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 7

Identifier

3.24620

Format

India ink on 4-ply cream board

Digitization Status

Digitized

Reproduction:

Original

Dimensions

37.2 cm W x 51.7 cm H (Item)
29.3 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)

Extent

1 sheet

Type

Drawing

Date created

1944

Description

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:

Shooting star -- Dodecatheon meadia
Blue phlox -- Phlox divaricata
Virginia cowslip -- Mertensia virginica
Ellisia -- Ellisia nyctelea
Virginia waterleaf -- Hydrophyllum virginianum
Appendaged waterleaf -- Hydrophyllum appendiculatum
Shining bedstraw-- Galium concinnum
Catchweed bedstraw -- Galium aparine
Northern bedstraw -- Galium boreale
Hairy bedstraw -- Galium pilosum
Dutchmans breeches -- Dicentra cucullaria
Squirrel corn -- Dicentra canadensis
Self-heal -- Prunella vulgaris
Wood betony -- Pedicularis canadensis

Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art.

Appeared In

Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, nos. 4 and 5, p. 20.

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Language

English