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Index of Botanical Specimens

Classification	Asteraceae: Solidago
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00872820
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	clam-shell Hill
Date Collected	1857
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/dc7c2a11-33c4-42d3-8c04-82df50691202
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00872820
Herbarium	GH
Family	Asteraceae
Determination	Solidago speciosa Nuttall
Determination Remarks	[current name]
Annotation Text	var. speciosa, fide R. L. Angelo, Vascular Flora of Concord, Massachusetts (http://www.ray-a.com/ConcordMassFlora.pdf) Accessed 18 May 2017
Family	Asteraceae
Determination	Solidago rigida Linnaeus
Determination Remarks	[label name]
Subcollection	Thoreau Herbarium
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed

Remarks

[“Sept. 11. . . To my surprise I find, by the black oaks at the sand-hole east of Clamshell, the Solidago rigida, apparently in prime or a little past. The heads and rays were so large I thought at first it must be a hieracium. The rays are from ten to fourteen, and three to three and a half fortieths of an inch wide. The middle leaves are clasping by a heart-shaped base. The heads are seven fortieths of an inch wide and seventeen fortieths long, in recurved panicles.” Journal 10: 30-31. 1857]