From a Summer Meadow (3.24613)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of various meadow leaves, seeds, and flowers with descriptive text next to each image, created to accompany "Let's Look At A Meadow" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Header: From A Summer Meadow
Illustrations are divided into three sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1 - LEAVES with protection (depicted from left to right)
- from a too thristy sun
- Queen Anne's lace - reduced surface
- Prickly lettuce - compass habit
- Milkweed - milky juice
- Mullein (overlapped in next section) - felty covering
- from hungry cattle
- Mullein (overlapped in previous section) - felty covering
- Yarrow - bitter taste
- Thistle - spines
- by air
- Milkweed
- Fleabane
- Goatsbeard
- Thistle
- Dandelion
- by fur
- Barbs of grasses (enlarged)
- Spanish needle
- Cocklebur
- Burdock
- Aster
- Fleabane
- Brown-eyed susan
- Chicory
- Sneezeweed
Extent: 1 sheet
Cichorium intybus [graphic]. (3.26071)
Date: 1787 – 1793Creator: Hoppe, David Heinrich, 1760-1846.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : nature print, printers' ink 40 x 25 cm.
Wegwartzam [graphic]. (3.26096)
Date: 1546Creator: Kandel, David, -1587.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : woodcut, hand-colored image 7 x 15 cm., on sheet 31 x 20 cm.
Cichorium intybus (common chicory), flower (3.80018)
Date: 2004 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cichorium intybus (common chicory), flower. Blue, with insect. Stems visible in background.