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Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 6


3.24621
India ink on 4-ply cream board
Digitized
Original
37 cm W x 54.6 cm H (Item)
27 cm W x 45.6 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:
  • Golden alexanders -- Zizia aurea
  • Yellow taenidia -- Taenidia integerrima
  • Purple-stem angelica -- Angelica atropurpurea
  • Cow parsnip -- Heracleum lanatum
  • Smooth sweet cicely -- Osmorhiza longistylis
  • Hairy sweet cicely -- Osmorhiza claytoni
  • Vetch -- Vicia caroliniana
  • Downy yellow violet -- Viola pubescens
  • Palmate violet -- Viola palmata
  • Hairy blue violet -- Viola sororia
  • Common blue violet -- Viola papilionacea
  • Jacob's ladder -- Polemonium reptans 
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. 19.
Artwork
English
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