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Index of Botanical Specimens

ClassificationCampanulaceae: Campanula
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)00967050
CollectorH. D. Thoreau
CountryUnited States of America
StateMassachusetts
GeographyNorth America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: Massachusetts: Middlesex County: Concord
Localityours in garden
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/7ed0290e-cc39-4ce6-bf5d-7c49e08d55fa
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode00967050
HerbariumGH
FamilyCampanulaceae
Determination Campanula americana Linnaeus
Determination Remarks [is label name]
FamilyCampanulaceae
Determination Campanula rapunculoides Linnaeus
Determined byKittredge, Walter Tobey
Date Determined2017
Determination Remarks [is Current name]
SubcollectionThoreau Herbarium
PhenologyFlower
Preparation TypeSheet
Preparation MethodPressed
Remarks[“July 22. . . I find the Campanula Americana of the West naturalized in our garden.” Journal 5: 324. 1853. Campanula rapunculoides isn’t listed in Gray’s Manual of Botany 1st or 2nd editions, but is listed in horticultural treatises of the time such as McMahon’s 1806 “The American Gardener’s Calender” as a vegetable under Campanula Rapunculus, Esculent Rampion. ann. W. T. Kittredge, 2017]

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