Saturday, September 5, 2020

An island of Aster puniceus, five feet high.


September 5. 

To Framingham. 

Saw, in a meadow in Wayland, at a little distance, what I have no doubt was an island of Aster puniceus, one rod in diameter, - one mass of flowers five feet high.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 5, 1853

An island of Aster puniceus, one rod in diameter, - one mass of flowers five feet high. October 7, 1857 ("Crossing Depot Brook, I see many yellow butterflies fluttering about the Aster puniceus, still abundantly in bloom there.")

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