Vegetation Barrier Toolkit for Schools and Communities (3.99358)
Date: January 2022Type: Document
Description:"The goal of this toolkit is to take a community group step-by-step through the process of planning, creating, and caring for a vegetation barrier in addition to using vegetation barriers as part of science curricula."
Visiting Scientists Conduct Research at the Arboretum (3.83111)
Type: Document
Description:Clipping from an unknown publication reporting on activities and research of both visiting scientists and scientists currently employed by The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 Sheet
Pre-European Settlement Vegetation of the Chicago region (3.60089)
Date: 2004Creator: McBride, Jenny, Bowles, Marlin L.
Type: Document
Using Historic Survey Data in Conservation GIS [PowerPoint Presentation] (3.60088)
Date: 2004Creator: McBride, Jenny
Type: Document
Searching The Public Land Survey For Illinois Natural History (3.60087)
Date: 2007Creator: McBride, Jenny, Bowles, Marlin L.
Type: Article
Description:A digital copy of "Searching the Public Land Survey for Illinois Natural History" authored by Marlin Bowles and Jenny McBride.
Table of Changes in Basal Area Arboretum's East Woods, 1980-1985 (3.44233)
Type: Document
Description:"Growth and decline of forest trees of the Morton Arboretum's east woods (King's Grove) from 1980 to 1985. Measurements are expressed in increases or decreases in square inches of basal area/acre."
Clonal population structure of the federal threatened Mead’s milkweed, as determined by RAPD analysis, and its conservation implications as part of "Seeds for the Future Roots of the Past: Proceedings of the Seventh North American Prairie Conference" (3.31532)
Date: 2002Creator: Bowles, Marlin L.
Type: Article
Description:A digitized chapter of Clonal population structure of the federal threatened Mead’s milkweed, as determined by RAPD analysis, and its conservation implications as part of "Seeds for the Future Roots of the Past: Proceedings of the Seventh North American Prairie Conference"
Fostering environmental awareness: an education role for public gardens? (3.31518)
Date: 1989Creator: Borden, William K.
Type: Article
Ground cover junipers for the Chicago area (3.31517)
Date: December 21 1986 – March 20 1987Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Recommended Shrubby Potentilla Cultivars for the Midwest (3.31516)
Date: December 21 1983 – March 20 1984Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Alpine flower friends: plants & people I have known & loved (3.31515)
Date: 2012Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Book
Prairie Plants of the Chicago Region (3.31509)
Date: 1965Creator: Betz, Robert F.
Type: Book
Description:Contains checklist to help identify prairie plants characteristic of the Chicago region.
Sibiraea laevigata: a promising dwarf shrub (3.31508)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1984Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Description:Details on the propagation of the Sibiraea laevigata.
Recommended Shrubby Potentilla Cultivars for the Midwest (3.31507)
Date: June 1985Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Ten years in a backyard prairie (3.31504)
Date: March 27 1999Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Article
Description:Patricia Armstrong's assessment of the changes to her backyard prairie over the course of ten years. Details in changes of plants and wildlife.
Chemical control of the Bronze Birch Borer (3.31501)
Date: February 1973Creator: Appleby, James E.
Type: Article
Observations on the life history and control of the lilac borer (3.31500)
Date: February 1973Creator: Appleby, James E.
Type: Article
Biological notes on Phloeotribus scabricollis (Hopkins) (Coleoptera: scolytidae) (3.31499)
Date: 1971Creator: Sanderson, Milton W.
Type: Article
The Year of the Cicadas by Stephanie Adams, PhD, BCMA, plant health care leader (3.117339)
Date: May 16 2024Type: Presentation
Description:A PDF version of a slideshow titled "The Year of the Cicadas" presented by Stephanie Adams, PhD, BCMA, plant health care leader as part of a "Know Your Arboretum" presentation at The Morton Arboretum on May 16, 2024.
Tree Physiological Responses During Drought by Stephanie Adams, PhD, BCMA, plant health care leader (3.117043)
Date: December 4 2023Creator: Adams, Stephanie
Type: Presentation
Description:A PDF version of a slideshow titled "Tree Physiological Responses During Drought" presented by Stephanie Adams, PhD, BCMA, plant health care leader as part of a "Tree Talk" for The Morton Arboretum on December 4, 2023.
Site and Soil Characteristics Driving White Oak Decline in the Chicago Region by Rosalind Remsen, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point; Fredric Miller, Senior Scientist-Entomology; Stephanie Adams, Plant Health Care Leader (3.116446)
Date: November 8 2023Type: Presentation
Description:A PDF version of a slideshow titled "Site and Soil Characteristics Driving White Oak Decline in the Chicago Region" presented by Rosalind Remsen, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point; Fredric Miller, Senior Scientist-Entomology; Stephanie Adams, Plant Health Care Leader as part of the Illinois Arborist Association (ISA Chapter) Annual Conference held in Tinley Park, Illinois on November 8, 2023.
Lydia Scott Oral History Interview, 2023-12-13 (3.116359)
Date: December 13 2023Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Lydia Scott, employee of The Morton Arboretum from 2012 to 2023, conducted by Rita Hassert, library collections manager. The interview took place on Dec 13, 2023, in the Sterling Morton Library's Special Collections Reading Room.
Topics include: Ms. Scott's career and her time at the Arboretum, the founding of the Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI), data collected and maintained by CRTI, several CRTI programs and initiatives, the challenges and successes she has seen while leading CRTI, and urban and community forestry's past and future.
Summary of Diseases Diagnosed on Nursery Stock by Stephanie Adams, Ph.D., Plant and Tree Pathologist (3.114779)
Date: July – August 2023Creator: Adams, Stephanie
Type: Presentation
Description:A PDF version of a slideshow titled "Summary of Diseases Diagnosed on Nursery Stock" presented by Stephanie Adams as part of the American Society of Horticultural Science workshop held in Orlando, Florida on July 31-August 4, 2023.
Plant Clinic Volunteers Training on Symptoms and Signs of Plant Diseases by Stephanie Adams (3.114778)
Date: October 10 2023Creator: Adams, Stephanie
Type: Presentation
Description:A PDF version of a slideshow titled "Plant Clinic Volunteers Training on Symptoms and Signs of Plant Diseases" presented by Stephanie Adams as part of a virtual Morton Arboretum Plant Clinic Training opportunity held on October 10, 2023.
Identifying healthy and diseased roots in landscape plants and in nursery stock by Stephanie Adams, Ph.D., BCMA, Tree Pathologist, Plant Health Care Leader (3.114772)
Date: October 10 2023Creator: Adams, Stephanie
Type: Presentation
Description:A PDF version of a slideshow titled "Identifying healthy and diseased roots in landscape plants and in nursery stock" presented by Stephanie Adams as part of the Landscape Below Ground preconference workshop on October 10, 2023 in Lisle, IL.
Field Diagnostics for Tree Climbers by Stephanie Adams (3.114674)
Date: September 22 2023Creator: Adams, Stephanie
Type: Presentation
Description:A PDF version of a slideshow titled "Field Diagnostics for Tree Climbers" presented by Stephanie Adams as part of the International Society of Arboriculture - Texas Chapter's Texas Trees Conference held in Waco, Texas on September 22, 2023.
Beneficial Microbes by Stephanie Adams (3.114673)
Date: September 20 2023Creator: Adams, Stephanie
Type: Presentation
Description:A PDF version of a slideshow titled "Beneficial Microbes" presented by Stephanie Adams as part of the Pathogens, Beneficials and Processes Academy workshop held in Waco, Texas on September 20, 2023.
Landscape Pattern and Structure of Oak Savanna, Woodland and Barrens in Northeastern Illinois at the Time of European Settlement as part of the 1994 North American Conference on Savannas and Barrens Proceedings (3.113796)
Date: October 1994Creator: Bowles, Marlin L., McBride, Jenny
Type: Article
Description:A digitized chapter of the 1994 North American Conference on Savannas and Barrens Proceedings written by Marlin L. Bowles and Jeanette L. McBride.
Full proceedings from the conference can be found online here.
Zizia aptera (A. Gray) Fernald (heart-leaved meadow-parsnip), seedling (3.102206)
Date: July 1 2021Creator: Kluge, Mark
Type: Photographic image
Description:Zizia aptera (A. Gray) Fernald (heart-leaved meadow-parsnip), seedling
Zizia aptera (A. Gray) Fernald (heart-leaved meadow-parsnip), seedling, leaves, upper surface (3.102205)
Date: August 5 2021Creator: Kluge, Mark
Type: Photographic image
Description:Zizia aptera (A. Gray) Fernald (heart-leaved meadow-parsnip), seedling with a focus on its upper surface leaves
Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farw. (Culver’s root), seedlings, leaves, upper surface (3.102204)
Date: July 1 2021Creator: Kluge, Mark
Type: Photographic image
Description:Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farw. (Culver’s root), seedlings with focus on the upper surfaces of their leaves
Verbena stricta (hoary vervain), seedling, leaves, upper surface (3.102203)
Date: May 13 2021Creator: Kluge, Mark
Type: Photographic image
Description:Verbena stricta (hoary vervain), seedling with focus on the upper surfaces of its leaves