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Index of Botanical Specimens

Classification	Asteraceae: Helianthus
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00872862
Collector	H. D. Thoreau
Country	United States of America
State	Massachusetts
Geography	North America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: Massachusetts: Middlesex County: Concord
Locality	Corner Road
Date Collected	1856-08-11
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/030de155-e9df-49d3-bae3-6950530bdc27
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00872862
Herbarium	GH
Family	Asteraceae
Determination	Helianthus strumosus Linnaeus
Determination Remarks	[label name] [current name]
Subcollection	Thoreau Herbarium
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed

Remarks

[“Aug. 11. . .P. M. Walk to Conantum with Mr. Bradford. . . A new sunflower at Wheeler’s Bank, this side Corner Spring,which I will call the tall rough sunflower; opened say August 1st (?). (I saw it out the 7th.) It does not correspond exactly to any described. Stem three to six feet high, branched at top, purple with a bloom, roughish, especially the peduncles. Leaves opposite, except a few small ones amid the branches, thick, ovate or ovate-lancoelate, taper-pointed, three-nerved, obscurely and remotely toothed, rough above, smooth and whitish below, abruptly contracted into margined petioles. Scales of the involucre lanceolate, taper-pointed, subequal, exceeding the disk, ciliate; rays eight or nine, one and a half or more inches long, chaff black. Edge of meadow.” Journal 8: 461-462. 1856]