Immature firs in winter (3.2966)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Immature firs in winter
Extent: 1 photograph
East gate (3.37208)
Type: Photographic image
Description:East entrance road of Arboretum with gates open
Extent: 1 photograph
Sciadopitys verticillata (Thunb.) Sieb. & Zucc. (Japanese umbrella-pine), leaves (3.116019)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sciadopitys verticillata (Thunb.) Sieb. & Zucc. (Japanese umbrella-pine), leaves
The Morton Arboretum's East Gatehouse (3.99814)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An undated photograph of the Arboretum's East Gatehouse. The scenery includes various trees in fall color behind the gatehouse, with short line of cars at the gatehouse. The cars look like they could be from the 1950s - 1970s.
Pat Kelsey and Rick Hootman testing soil in the prairie, surrounded by golden prairie grass (3.58972)
Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pat Kelsey (left) and Rick Hootman (right) testing soil in the prairie, surrounded by golden prairie grass with trees at horizon
Extent: 1 slide
Gymnocladus dioicus ‘J.C. McDaniel’ (PRAIRIE TITAN™ Kentucky coffeetree), leaves (3.115621)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gymnocladus dioicus ‘J.C. McDaniel’ (PRAIRIE TITAN™ Kentucky coffeetree), leaves
Baptisia 'Purple Smoke' (false indigo), buds and flowers (3.115223)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Baptisia 'Purple Smoke' (false indigo), buds and flowers
Dodecatheon meadia (3.55821)
Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A note card containing handwritten notes (presumably written by Ray Schulenberg) with propagation information on prairie plants.
Extent: 1 Card
Lawn and body of water on or near Morton residence grounds (3.37734)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Lawn and body of water on or near Morton residence grounds
Extent: 1 negative
Ranunculus asiaticus 'Bloomingdale Golden Shades' flowers, stems, and leaves (3.108065)
Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tightly clustered close up of bright yellow many rullfled petals formig a rose like structure. Some medium green small leaves can be seen in backgroud near flowers.
Tilia americana var. americana (American Basswood), infructescence (3.44440)
Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tilia americana var. americana (American Basswood), infructescence
Viburnum dilatatum Thunb. (linden viburnum), leaves (3.116243)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Viburnum dilatatum Thunb. (linden viburnum), leaves
Grassy clearing with dappled light in wooded area (3.40099)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Grassy clearing with dappled light in wooded area
Extent: 1 photograph
Phalaris arundinacea L. (red canary grass), leaves (3.115845)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Phalaris arundinacea L. (red canary grass), leaves
Cornus officinalis Siebold & Zucc. (Japanese cornel), form in late spring (3.115447)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cornus officinalis Siebold & Zucc. (Japanese cornel), form in late spring
Acer japonicum (Fullmoon maple), leaves and flower (3.37526)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer japonicum (Fullmoon maple), closeup detail of leaves that are almost circular with many short lobes and reddish flower
Extent: 1 slide
Spiraea japonica L. (Japanese spirea), flower (3.116051)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Spiraea japonica L. (Japanese spirea), flower
Hibiscus syriacus L. (rose-of-sharon), flower buds (3.115653)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hibiscus syriacus L. (rose-of-sharon), flower buds
Calla palustris L. (water arum), leaves and flowers (3.108633)
Creator: Dritz, Ken
Type: Photographic image
Description:Calla palustris L. (water arum), leaves and flowers with water droplets on plant
Extent: 1 slide
Betula papyrifera Marsh. (paper birch), catkin (3.115255)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula papyrifera Marsh. (paper birch), catkin
Morton Residence Grounds at Thornhill, lilies in pond (3.3388)
Creator: Miller, W. L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Residence Grounds at Thornhill, lilies in pond
Extent: 1 photograph
Doris Taylor in Birch Collection hanging soap to deter deer (3.5177)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Doris Taylor in Birch Collection hanging soap to deter deer
Extent: 1 photograph
Old iron bridge on the Arboretum's west side (3.36985)
Type: Photographic image
Description:All that is left of the old Joliet Road, traveled by Joy Morton in 1909, is this old iron bridge. Even the East Branch of the DuPage River, which the bridge spanned originally, was moved when Route 53 was widened in 1959, leaving the bridge stranded over a sluggish backwater on the Arboretum's west side.
Extent: 1 photograph
Alliaria petiolata (Bieb.) Cavara & Grande (garlic-mustard), flowers and leaves (3.83228)
Creator: Shouba, Jack
Type: Photographic image
Description:Alliaria petiolata (Bieb.) Cavara & Grande (garlic-mustard), single stem plant; white four-petaled flowers with some petals falling off; coarsely-toothed, alternate leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Cooley's Spruce Gall Adelgid on Pseudotsuga Carr. (douglas-fir) (3.91986)
Type: Specimen
Description:A riker mount containing Cooley's Spruce Gall Adelgid on Pseudotsuga Carr. (douglas-fir).
These specimens are available for checkout via the Plant Pathology Lab of The Morton Arboretum. For more information, fill out the form here and an Arboretum staff member will contact you.
One of the hybrid parents in the Legacy Elm Improvement Project with Kris Bachtell standing in front for scale (3.96767)
Creator: Shearer, Kim
Type: Photographic image
Description:One of the hybrid parents in the Legacy Elm Improvement Project with Kris Bachtell standing in front for scale. This is also a part of the "Development of Disease-and Pest-Resistant Cultivars in Elm
and Ash" project.
Baptisia alba var. macrophylla (Larisey) Isley (white wild indigo), flower buds (3.105154)
Creator: Harcourt, R. M.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Baptisia alba var. macrophylla (Larisey) Isley (white wild indigo), white flowers with purple markings in raceme, purple stem
Extent: 1 slide
Jerry Wilhelm outdoors participating in controlled burn (3.5223)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Jerry Wilhelm outdoors participating in controlled burn
Extent: 1 photograph
Birds in the Arboretum [historic document] (3.64493)
Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Paragraph on birds in the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 page
Cornus kousa subsp. chinensis (Chinese Kousa Dogwood), flower, full (3.65132)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cornus kousa subsp. chinensis (Chinese Kousa Dogwood), flower, full
Morton residence from garden and lily pool looking southeast (3.38657)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Residence looking SE from gardens
Extent: 1 negative
Pinus parviflora Sieb. & Zucc. (Japanese white pine), bud (3.115877)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus parviflora Sieb. & Zucc. (Japanese white pine), bud
Cotoneaster divaricatus Rehder & E.H.Wilson (spreading cotoneaster), leaf buds (3.115479)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cotoneaster divaricatus Rehder & E.H.Wilson (spreading cotoneaster), leaf buds
May T. Watts examining foliage (3.36625)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts examins tall plants in Kentucky. She holds a stalk of one of the plants in her hand.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Sporobolus heterolepis (A. Gray) A. Gray (prairie dropseed), form (3.116083)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sporobolus heterolepis (A. Gray) A. Gray (prairie dropseed), form