Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries

Index of Botanical Specimens

Classification	Lamiaceae: Monarda
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00967120
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
Date Collected	1854-07-18
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/e3d82071-12f1-4969-b855-b54d4814522f
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00967120
Herbarium	GH
Family	Lamiaceae
Determination	Monarda fistulosa Linnaeus
Determination Remarks	[current name]
Annotation Text	[fide R. J. Eaton, A Flora of Concord p. 165. 1974]
Family	Lamiaceae
Determination	Monarda fistulosa Linnaeus
Determination Remarks	[label name]
Subcollection	Thoreau Herbarium
Phenology	Flower
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed

Remarks

[“July 18. . . By the elecampane and he Wheeler house, to my great surprise growing abundantly in the road, the Monarda fistulosa, apparently a week at least, - three or more feet high with a few heads containing a whorl of large, very showy crimson flowers, with crimsoned bracts in whorls beneath, with a balm or summer savory or sweet marjoram fragrance. These things out of the heavenward northwest. Perhaps it is Wood’s variety mollis. It cannot be the didyma, for the corolla is not more than one and three eighths inches long.” Journal 6: 401, 403. 1854]