Tree Portraits: Boxelder (3.31854)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a boxelder tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of its seeds. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- o
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Twigs, #2 (3.34234)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a display board in a classroom.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 slide
Acer (maple), bud and twig comparison (3.38063)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Buds on twigs of four different species of maple, from left to right: Acer negundo (boxelder), Acer rubrum (red maple), Acer platanoides (Norway maple), Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Extent: 1 slide
Boxelder and Poison Ivy (3.34341)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A display depicting boxelder and poison ivy leaves and stems.
Extent: 1 slide
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
Winter Buds, #1 (3.19511)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 2 (3.24631)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 2 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Original identifying text has detached and is mostly missing.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
- Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
- Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
- Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
- Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa [and] Catalpa bignonioides
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- [as a single illustration:]
- Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
- River birch -- Betula nigra
- Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
- Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
- European white birch -- Betula pendula
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters (3.24608)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting four groups of staminate and pistillate flowers with associated outline of six trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time.
Header: Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters
Illustrations are separated into four sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1: Pistillate and Staminate Flowers on Different Trees
(depicted from left to right)
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
(depicted from left to right)
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- American elm -- Ulmus americana
Extent: 1 sheet
Our Native Maples (3.24611)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of four species of maple, created to accompany "The Maples of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show tree shape, including top, twigs, branches, size, winged seeds, and leaves. Descriptive text gives details of tree structure (branching, bark, and trunk), habitat, seed ripening schedule, and leaf details including color and sinus structure. Red maple seeds illustration is a cut out piece glued in place.
Illustrations depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- tree - round top; dark smooth on young branches; right-angled branching; sap-sucker holes; stone-gray bark with thick plates loose along one edge; upland
- seeds - ripe in September-October
- leaf - smooth, thin, yellow in Fall
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- tree - broad top; smooth gray young branches; branches bend downward with tips turning upward; long loose scales on bark; trunk often divides near ground; lowland
- seeds - ripe in May
- leaf - silvery beneath; acute, deep sinuses
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- tree - pale gray upper branches; red twigs; dark gray bark; swamp, river-bottom, upland
- seeds - ripe in May-June
- leaf - silvery beneath, V-shaped sinuses, scarlet in Fall
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- tree - small tree; bushy spreading top, purplish twigs, bark with narrow shallow ridges; river bottoms
- seeds - ripe in summer; hangs on a winter
- leaf - prominent veins; 3 to 7 leaflets
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Boxelder (3.27687)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of boxelder leaves, stems, flowers, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Elder box
- Acer negundo
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer negundo (boxelder), fall color (3.37507)
Date: October 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), small tree showing fall color
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), near residence (3.37502)
Date: February 1953Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), bare winter trees in foreground of residence
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), flowers (3.37567)
Date: April 16 1959Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of flowers on long stalks in drooping clusters
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), buds (3.37559)
Date: March 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of whitish oval buds on twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), buds (3.37501)
Date: March 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of white oval buds
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), male flower (3.37560)
Date: April 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of male flowers budding from twig on this dioecious maple
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), buds (3.37561)
Date: April 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of buds
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), female flower (3.37562)
Date: May 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of female flowers budding from twig on this dioecious maple
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), male flowers (3.37566)
Date: May 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of reddish male flowers budding from twig on this dioecious maple
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), fall (3.37509)
Date: October 1964Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), large tree in fall with multiple trunks along Illinois Trees Trail
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), male flowers (3.37570)
Date: February 1967Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of reddish male flowers budding from twig on this dioecious maple
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), leaves (3.37575)
Date: August 1969Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), compound leaves with 3 irregularly toothed leaflets
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), flowers (3.37574)
Date: April 1971Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of flowers on long stalks in drooping clusters and leaves at tip of twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), buds (3.37500)
Date: March 1972Creator: Kohout, Kitty, Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of whitish oval buds on twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), fruit and leaves (3.37571)
Date: June 1972Creator: Kohout, Kitty, Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), female tree, fruit in the form of pairs of winged seeds (samaras) hanging in clusters.
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), female flower (3.37568)
Date: December 1972Creator: Reynolds, P. J.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of female flower emerging from bud
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), summer (3.37504)
Date: July 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), tree in summer with multiple trunks, one of them severed, along Illinois Trees Trail
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), bark (3.37558)
Date: August 20 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), bark on the trunk of tree
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), fall (3.37508)
Date: October 30 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), tree near gravel path with line of trees in background, green leaves have a touch of golden fall color
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), flowers (3.37496)
Date: May 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), inset image with closeup detail of flowers on long stalks in drooping clusters
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), bark and twig (3.37495)
Date: May 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), split image showing closeup detail of heavily furrowed bark from tree trunk and closeup detail of twig with white oval buds
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), spring (3.37576)
Date: May 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), large tree in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), flowers (3.37563)
Date: March 1979Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of flowers budding from tip of twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), fruit and leaves (3.37499)
Date: March 1979Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder) female tree, fruit in the form of pairs of winged seeds (samaras) hanging in clusters
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), spring (3.37577)
Date: April 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), large tree in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Acer negundo (boxelder), twig and buds (3.37498)
Date: April 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), closeup detail of twig and white oval buds
Extent: 1 slide