Watts, May Theilgaard
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 6
Identifier
3.24621Format
India ink on 4-ply cream boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
37 cm W x 54.6 cm H (Item)27 cm W x 45.6 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:
- 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
Appeared In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, nos. 4 and 5, p. 19.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
Angelica atropurpurea L. (great angelica)
Osmorhiza longistylis (Torr.) DC. (smooth sweet cicely)
Vicia caroliniana Walter (Carolina vetch)
Zizia aurea (L.) W. D. Koch (golden alexanders)
Viola sororia Willd. (common blue violet)
Heracleum maximum Bartr. (common cow-parsnip)
Viola ×palmata L. (pro sp.) [brittoniana or pedatifida × affinis or sororia] (early blue violet)
Polemonium reptans L. (Jacob’s ladder)
Taenidia integerrima (L.) Drude (yellow pimpernel)
Viola pubescens (yellow violet)
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