Ashley Wojciechowski and Amayrani Sanchez conducting labwork (3.96761)
Creator: Alvarez-Clare, Silvia
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ashley Wojciechowski and Amayrani Sanchez conducting labwork by measuring plant and soil nutrient concentrations in the soils lab for the "Earth Forest Fertilization Experiment (EFFEX)" project.
May T. Watts and class at the Arboretum, group sitting on bench (3.33929)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Visitors sit on a bench at The Morton Arborteum, including three unidentified men and two unidentified women, attending one of May T. Watts' classes. A man in a tie stands to the right.
Extent: 1 photograph
Eryngium yuccifolium, flowers (3.111590)
Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Eryngium yuccifolium (rattlesnake master, button snakeroot, bear grass, bear's grass, button eryngo) is native to Illinois. It has white flower heads that are golf-ball like spheres at the end of branched stalks. These heads are composed of tiny, white, five-petaled flowers with notched tips and pointed white bracts.
Viburnum dentatum L. (southern arrowwood), buds and leaves (3.116233)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Viburnum dentatum L. (southern arrowwood), buds and leaves
Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Sieb. & Zucc.) Planch. (Boston-ivy), form (3.115835)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Sieb. & Zucc.) Planch. (Boston-ivy), form
Rudbeckia subtomentosa (3.56011)
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
Cornus florida L. (flowering dogwood), flowers (3.115437)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cornus florida L. (flowering dogwood), flowers
Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash (Indian grass), fruit (3.116041)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash (Indian grass), fruit
Helleborus ‘Golden Sunrise’ (WINTER JEWELS™ series Golden Sunrise hellebore), form (3.115643)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Helleborus ‘Golden Sunrise’ (WINTER JEWELS™ series Golden Sunrise hellebore), form
Tetraneuris herbacea Greene (lakeside daisy), habitat (3.82467)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tetraneuris herbacea Greene (lakeside daisy), formerly Actinea herbacea, clumps of the Lakeside daisy growing between fieldstones...looks like a planned planting.
Extent: 1 slide
Betula alleghaniensis Britton (yellow birch), bark (3.115245)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula alleghaniensis Britton (yellow birch), bark
Cornus kousa subsp. chinensis (Chinese Kousa Dogwood), habit, spring (3.65138)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cornus kousa subsp. chinensis (Chinese Kousa Dogwood), habit, spring
Stone path in Morton residence garden (3.40131)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Residence gardens
Extent: 1 negative
Arnoglossum plantagineum Raf. (prairie Indian-plantain), close-up of flowers and buds (3.108599)
Creator: Lamp, Herbert F.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arnoglossum plantagineum Raf. (prairie Indian-plantain), close-up of flowers and buds with a dark background
Extent: 1 slide
Banana leaf (3.80010)
Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Banana leaf, green, close-up view, sunlight shining on it with shadow in bottom right corner. Stem and other banana leaves visible in background.
Cornus sanguinea 'Winter Flame' (Winter Flame Blood-twigged Dogwood), bark, trunk (3.65344)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cornus sanguinea 'Winter Flame' (Winter Flame Blood-twigged Dogwood), bark, trunk
May T. Watts with family (3.36631)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts poses with family near a brick building with a green fence.
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
The Stylish House: 1856 to 1881 (3.34279)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the mid- to late-19th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- Jonathan and Patience / and / David / John / Paul / Daniel / Ruth / Rachel / and / Rover / and / Dobbin
- 1856 / to / 1881
- [sketch of a hanging lamp]
- [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and grounds surrounded by a fence, including the following plants and trees:]
- elderberry
- Richmond cherry
- box elder
- wild plum
- mint
- rhubarb
- maiden blush
- sweet bough
- russet apple
- Damson plums
- Ailanthus
- tawny day lily
- feverfew
- flags
- pinks
- bleeding heart
- red peony
- Johnny-jump-ups
- sweet shrub
- crimson rambler
- lily of the valley
- white pine
- Harison's yellow rose
- snowball bush
- white lilac
- cabbage rose
- [sketches of two vases with flowers to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
Acer palmatum (Japanese maple), leaves with fall color (3.37512)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer palmatum (Japanese maple), closeup of twig with bright red fall foliage
Extent: 1 slide
Interview of a local farmer on Quercus brandegeei Goldman (cape oak) (3.96809)
Creator: Alvarez-Clare, Silvia
Type: Photographic image
Description:Interviewing a local farmer to ask him about common uses of Quercus brandegeei Goldman (cape oak) and their perception
Pat Armstrong in Schulenberg Prairie (3.4814)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pat Armstrong in Schulenberg Prairie
Extent: 1 photograph
Helen and Marge digging to a trout lily bulb (3.34084)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Helen Turner and Marge Shawvan dig for a trout lily bulb at The Morton Arboretum in a class with May T. Watts.
Extent: 1 slide
Viburnum plicatum ‘Shasta’ (Shasta doublefile viburnum), flowers (3.116265)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Viburnum plicatum ‘Shasta’ (Shasta doublefile viburnum), flowers
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. (side-oats grama grass), fruit (3.113935)
Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. (side-oats grama grass), fruit
Picea abies (L.) Karsten (Norway spruce), bud (3.115867)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Picea abies (L.) Karsten (Norway spruce), bud
Solidago canadensis L. (3.56046)
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
Cotinus obovatus Raf. (American smoke tree), leaf (3.115469)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cotinus obovatus Raf. (American smoke tree), leaf
Spiraea trichocarpa Nakai (Korean spirea), bud (3.116073)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Spiraea trichocarpa Nakai (Korean spirea), bud
Hydrangea paniculata ‘Bulk’ (panicled hydrangea – QUICK FIRE®), fruit (3.115675)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hydrangea paniculata ‘Bulk’ (panicled hydrangea – QUICK FIRE®), fruit
Accolade Elm Leaflet (3.106998)
Type: Document
Description:Information sheet describing the Accolade Elm (Ulmus x Morton), a hybrid of the Japanese Elm (Ulmus Japonica) and Wilson Elm (Ulmus wilsoniana). Includes general description, growth rate, culture, disease and insect tolerance, and landscape value.
Extent: 1 sheet
Callicarpa dichotoma (Lour.) K. Koch (purple beautyberry), fruit on branches (3.108650)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Callicarpa dichotoma (Lour.) K. Koch (purple beautyberry), fruit, black background
Extent: 1 slide
Calamagrostis ×acutiflora ‘Eldorado’ (Eldorado feather reed grass), flower (3.115277)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Calamagrostis ×acutiflora ‘Eldorado’ (Eldorado feather reed grass), flower
Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Mary Milton' (Mary Milton doublefile viburnum), flower (3.116279)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Mary Milton' (Mary Milton doublefile viburnum), flower
Cakile edentula (Bigelow) Hook. (American searocket), habit (3.108619)
Creator: Shouba, Jack
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cakile edentula (Bigelow) Hook. (American searocket), habit surrounded by sand
Extent: 1 slide
Pinus parviflora Sieb. & Zucc. (Japanese white pine), immature cone (3.115881)
Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus parviflora Sieb. & Zucc. (Japanese white pine), immature cone
Amelanchier humilis Wiegand (low serviceberry), form, habit (3.83468)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Amelanchier humilis Wiegand (low serviceberry), form, white flowers, spring, garden bed in background
Extent: 1 slide