The Edge of the Forest (3.24604)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of thirteen different trees and plants of the forest edge, created to accompany "The Edge of the Forest" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show species-specific seeds, flowers, trees, leaves, twigs and stems for each plant in columns and rows across the page. Some identifying text exists. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.
Header: THE EDGE of the FOREST
- includes generalized sketch of trees and other plants across the top
- Bird-distributed seeds
- Bee-pollenated flowers
- Protection from Grazers
- Armor
- Bitter Taste
- Rosa setigera -- Prairie rose
- Prunus americana -- Wild plum
- Rosa carolina -- Pasture rose
- Malus ioensis -- Wild crab
- Crataegus punctata -- Dotted hawthorn
- Rubus alligheniensis -- Blackberry
- Rubus occidentalis -- Blackcap raspberry
- Rhus glabra -- Smooth sumac
- Ribes cynosbati -- Gooseberry
- Cornus racemosa -- Gray dogwood
- Prunus virginiana -- Choke cherry
- Sambucus canadensis -- Elderberry
- Prunus serotina -- Black cherry
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor: A Glossary of Terms Used in this Key (3.24614)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Glossary of terms used for describing flowers, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes illustrations of labeled flower parts from side and above in center of image, surrounded by identification images and labels of flowers, and an illustrated glossary of terms describing leaves across the bottom.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1: Terms Used In Describing Flowers (illustrations from top to bottom, left to right)
- calyx
- corolla
- irregular
- panicle
- petal
- pistil
- polypetalous
- raceme
- regular
- sepal
- stamen
- style
- sympetalous
- umbel
- alternate
- basat
- compound
- entire margin
- lobed
- net-veined
- opposite
- parallel-veined
- simple
- toothed
- whorled
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 1 (3.24615)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- Skunk cabbage -- Symplocarpus foetidus
- Jack-in-the-pulpit -- Arisaema triphyllum
- Green dragon -- Arisaema dracontium
- Purple trillium (wake-robin) -- Trillium recurvatum
- Shy trillium -- Trillium declinatum
- Large-flowered trillium -- Trillium grandiflorum
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 2 (3.24616)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- Trout lily -- Erythronium albidum
- Wild garlic -- Allium canadense
- Wild leek -- Allium tricoccum
- Carrion flower -- Smilax herbacea
- Bellwort -- Uvularia grandiflora
- Small solomon seal -- Polygonatum biflorum
- Great solomon seal -- Polygonatum commutatum
- Starry solomonplume -- Smilacina stellata
- Feather solomonplume -- Smilacina racemosa
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 3 (3.24617)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- Early meadow rue -- Thalictrum dioicum
- Hepatica -- Hepatica acutiloba
- Wild ginger -- Asarum canadensis
- Golden seal -- Hydrastis canadensis
- Wood anemone -- Anemone quinquefolia
- Rue anemone -- Anemonella thalictroides
- False rue anemone -- Isopyrum biternatum
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 4 (3.24618)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- White baneberry -- Actaea alba
- Bloodroot -- Sanguinaria canadensis
- May-apple -- Podophyllum peltatum
- Wild columbine -- Aquilegia canadensis
- Wild strawberry -- Fragaria virginiana
- Cinquefoil -- Potentilla canadensis
- Small-flowered crowfoot -- Ranunculus abortivus
- Swamp buttercup -- Ranunculus septentrionalis
- Blue cohosh -- Caulophyllum thalictroides
- Toothwort -- Dentaria laciniata
- Spring cress -- Cardamine bulbosa
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 5 (3.24619)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- Wild geranium -- Geranium maculatum
- Foam flower -- Tiarella cordifolia
- Fire pink -- Silene virginica
- Evening campion -- Lychnis alba
- Spring beauty -- Claytonia virginica
- Rough alumroot -- Heuchera hispida
- Violet wood sorrel -- Oxalis violacea
- Yellow wood sorrel -- Oxalis stricta
- Wild sarsaparilla -- Aralia nudicaulis
- Ginseng -- Panax quinquefolium
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 7 (3.24620)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- Shooting star -- Dodecatheon meadia
- Blue phlox -- Phlox divaricata
- Virginia cowslip -- Mertensia virginica
- Ellisia -- Ellisia nyctelea
- Virginia waterleaf -- Hydrophyllum virginianum
- Appendaged waterleaf -- Hydrophyllum appendiculatum
- Shining bedstraw-- Galium concinnum
- Catchweed bedstraw -- Galium aparine
- Northern bedstraw -- Galium boreale
- Hairy bedstraw -- Galium pilosum
- Dutchmans breeches -- Dicentra cucullaria
- Squirrel corn -- Dicentra canadensis
- Self-heal -- Prunella vulgaris
- Wood betony -- Pedicularis canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 6 (3.24621)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- Golden alexanders -- Zizia aurea
- Yellow taenidia -- Taenidia integerrima
- Purple-stem angelica -- Angelica atropurpurea
- Cow parsnip -- Heracleum lanatum
- Smooth sweet cicely -- Osmorhiza longistylis
- Hairy sweet cicely -- Osmorhiza claytoni
- Vetch -- Vicia caroliniana
- Downy yellow violet -- Viola pubescens
- Palmate violet -- Viola palmata
- Hairy blue violet -- Viola sororia
- Common blue violet -- Viola papilionacea
- Jacob's ladder -- Polemonium reptans
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest vegetation (3.36351)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A forest with moss-covered trees, plants, and ferns, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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
Forest vegetation (3.36396)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest vegetation, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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
Moss on a tree stump (3.36398)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Moss growing in a tree stump, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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
Moss on a tree trunk (3.36400)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Moss growing in a tree trunk, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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
Moss growing on trees (3.36401)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Moss growing trees, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains. Several fern plants are visible in the foreground.
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
Fallen tree trunks (3.36402)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Several fallen tree trunks on the forest floor, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains. Various plants are visible growing between them.
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
Plants growing on fallen tree trunks (3.36403)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Close-up view of plants growing on fallen tree trunks, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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
Unidentified plant (3.36404)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An unidentified plant, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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
1992/05/12: Tom Green to Chris Whelan (3.44241)
Date: May 12 1992Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Tom Green to Chris Whelan concerning the inclusion of the East Woods in the overall Master Plan for The Morton Arboretum landscape. Management treatment studies, whose results could be shared with others working to manage woodlands in the Chicago region and beyond, are also presented.
Extent: 2 sheets