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Index of Botanical Specimens

Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)00872950
CollectorH. D. Thoreau
CountryUnited States of America
StateMassachusetts
GeographyNorth America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: Massachusetts: Middlesex County: Concord
Localityat Watts' ["Horatio C. Watts (1827-1899). Watts lived on the north side of Lexington Road near where the Cambridge Turnpike joins it. His potato field would have been between Lexington Road and the Turnpike." fide R. L. Angelo, Dec. 10, 2018]
Date Collected1856-08-14
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/0e0397f1-ea82-4d46-b633-b328e1d7ff4d
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode00872950
HerbariumGH
Determination Persicaria lapathifolia (Linnaeus) Delarbre
Determined byKittredge, Walter Tobey
Date Determined2017
Determination Remarks [current name]
DeterminationInQuestion Polygonum pensylvanicum Linnaeus
SubcollectionThoreau Herbarium
PhenologyFruit
Preparation TypeSheet
Preparation MethodPressed
Remarks["In Watt’s Potatoe field at the Turnpike I find 2 new kinds of Polygonum -- very near to P. Persicaria -- & so to Lapathifolium (P. [Pennsylvanicum] common at Brattleboro & different). The first I will call the Purple spotted Polyg.[onum] ... The other [i.e., the second] -- I may call the Green spiked -- ... The 2d Dense green spiked -- white flowered -- broad leaved & great jointed. ... "]

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