4 Oaks: Pin Oak, Black Oak, Chinqapin Oak, Shingle Oak (3.18291)
Date: 1972Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Twelve Oaks (3.24795)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of leaf, acorn, and twigs with buds for twelve different types of oak, created to accompany "The Oaks Of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings are divided into two categories and depicted in columns with descriptive text.
Header: TWELVE OAKS
Leaves, acorns, and twigs as depicted in two categories, from left to right, top to bottom:
Category 1: The Black Oak Group
- Eastern Red Oak - Quercus borealis
- leaf - dull above, glabrous beneath, lobes narrowing toward margin, sinuses about half-way to mid-rib.
- acorn - shallow cup, saucer-shaped, with glossy tight scales, white kernel
- twig with buds - buds red brown, not angled; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Northern Pin - Quercus ellipsoidalis
- leaf - lustrous, deeply lobed, lobes widening toward margin, base truncate or broad-cunate, 5 to 7 lobed
- acorn - top-shaped cup, enclosing half of nut, yellow kernel
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, obtuse at tip; twigs red-brown
- Black - Quercus velutina
- leaf - leathery, thick, petioles yellow, sinuses varying from shallow to deep
- acorn - bowl-like cup, scales form fringe at margin, yellow kernel
- twig with bids - buds pale woolly, strongly 5-sided; twigs red-brown, lenticels conspicuous
- Pin - Quercus palustris
- leaf - thin, lustrous, 5 to 7 lobed, few-toothed, slender petioles, base cuneate
- acorn - saucer-shaped cup, scales with free tips, nut often striped
- twigs with buds - side buds at wide angle; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Shingle - Quercus imbricaria
- leaf - lustrous above, pubescent below, persistent in Winter
- acorn - stalked cup, bowl-like, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown smooth; twigs smooth, gray-brown
- Willow - Quercus phellos
- leaf - lustrous, nearly sessile, acute at both ends
- acorn - talked cup, shallow, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown; twigs fine
- White - Quercus alba
- leaf - glabrous, with deep sinuses, often persistent in winter
- acorn - bowl-like cup, with thickened warty scales, nut edible
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, smooth; twigs red-brown, later ashy-gray; lenticels pale, conspicuous
- Bur - Quercus macrocarpa
- leaf - usually with "wasp-waist" - thick, smooth above, pale-pubescent beneath
- acorn - cup fringed, covering half or more of nut, larger in South
- twig with buds - buds pale-woolly, gray-tan; twigs gray, later corky-ridged
- English - Quercus robur
- leaf - auricled base, nearly sessile
- acorn - cup enclosing 1/4 to 1/3 of nut, long-stemmed
- twig with buds - buds, brown; side buds divergent; twigs brown
- Chinquapin - Quercus muehlenbergii
- leaf - thick, shiny above, pubescent beneath, somewhat sharply-toothed, rounded base, slender petiole
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thin, scales indistinct
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown; twigs orange-brown
- Basket - Quercus michauxii
- leaf - crenate margin, pale-pubescent beneath, cunate base, 10 to 14 pairs of teeth
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thickened, scales wedge-shaped
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown, twigs orange-brown
- Swamp White - Quercus bicolor
- leaf - thick, firm, coarsely-toothed, shining above, pale-fomentose beneath, 6 to 10 pairs of teeth, often persistent in winter
- acorn - usually paired, cup bowl-shaped, slightly-fringed, long-stalked
- twigs with buds - buds brown; twigs yellow-brown, with pale, raised lenticels
Extent: 1 sheet
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, various oaks (3.34251)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting drawings of various leaves, trunks, and fruit from oak trees found in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- --- / Oak
- Chinquapin Oak
- Shingle Oak
- Overcup [Oak]
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 04 No. 03 (3.34564)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1968Type: Serial
Description:
- An Essay on Illinois Oaks (33-39)
- Climatological Summary (39)
- Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra: Buckeye Family (Hippocastanaceae) (40-41)
- A Time To Transplant (42-46)
- Arboretum News and Notes (47-48)
Extent: 16 pages
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), bark, mature (3.46422)
Date: May 27 2012Creator: Lobdell, Matt
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), bark, mature
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), bark, twig (3.46423)
Date: May 11 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), bark, twig
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), bark, twig (3.46424)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), bark, twig
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), bud, terminal (3.46425)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), bud, terminal
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), flower, pistillate (3.46426)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), flower, pistillate
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), fruit, immature (3.46427)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), fruit, immature
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), fruit, immature (3.46428)
Date: September 18 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), fruit, immature
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), habit, fall (3.46429)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), habit, fall
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), habit, fall (3.46430)
Date: November 24 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), habit, fall
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), habit, fall (3.46431)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), habit, fall
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, fall (3.46432)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, fall
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, fall (3.46433)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, fall
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, fall (3.46434)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, fall
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, lower surface (3.46435)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, lower surface
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, lower surface (3.46436)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, lower surface
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, new (3.46437)
Date: May 11 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, new
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, new (3.46438)
Date: May 11 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, new
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, spring (3.46439)
Date: May 27 2012Creator: Lobdell, Matt
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, spring
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, spring (3.46440)
Date: May 28 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, spring
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, spring (3.46441)
Date: May 28 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, spring
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer (3.46442)
Date: September 17 2014Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer (3.46443)
Date: September 17 2014Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer (3.46444)
Date: September 17 2014Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer (3.46445)
Date: September 17 2014Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer (3.46446)
Date: July 5 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer (3.46447)
Date: July 5 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer (3.46448)
Date: July 5 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer (3.46449)
Date: September 18 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, summer
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, upper surface (3.46450)
Date: September 17 2014Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, upper surface
Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, upper surface (3.46451)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak), leaf, upper surface
2000/04/05: Village of Winnetka to George Ware (3.47259)
Date: April 5 2000Creator: Village of Winnetka
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile from the Village of Winnetka to George Ware listing the species of Arboretum trees along Green Bay Road.
Extent: 1 sheet