Format
India ink on 4-ply cream boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
37.2 cm W x 51.7 cm H (Item)
29.3 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:
- 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.