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Watts, May Theilgaard

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

3.24620
India ink on 4-ply cream board
Digitized
Original
37.2 cm W x 51.7 cm H (Item)
29.3 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
1944
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. 
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, nos. 4 and 5, p. 20.
Flowers--Anatomy
Forest plants
Leaves--Anatomy
Plants--Identification
Wild flowers
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Dodecatheon meadia L. (shooting star)
Mertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link (Virginia bluebells)
Pedicularis canadensis L. (lousewort)
Galium aparine L. (annual bedstraw)
Ellisia nyctelea (L.) L. (Aunt Lucy)
Prunella vulgaris L. (common selfheal)
Dicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh. (Dutchman’s breeches)
Hydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx. (great waterleaf)
Galium pilosum Aiton (hairy bedstraw)
Galium boreale L. (northern bedstraw)
Galium concinnum Torr. & Gray (shining bedstraw)
Dicentra canadensis (Goldie) Walp. (squirrel-corn)
Hydrophyllum virginianum L. (Virginia waterleaf)
Phlox divaricata L. (woodland phlox)
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 2
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 3
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 4
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 5
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 6
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor: A Glossary of Terms Used in this Key
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 1
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English
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