November 14.
Still yarrow, tall buttercup, and tansy.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, November 14, 1852
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October 20, 1852 ("Canada snapdragon, tansy, white goldenrod, blue-stemmed goldenrod. Aster undulatus, autumnal dandelion, tall buttercup, yarrow, mayweed. ");
November 3, 1853 ("To-day I see yarrow, very bright "); November 9, 1852 ("Ranunculus repens, Bidens connata (flat in a brook), yarrow, dandelion, autumnal dandelion, tansy, Aster undulatus, etc. A late three ribbed goldenrod, with large serratures in middle of the narrow leaves, ten or twelve rays. Potentilla argentea.");
November 12, 1853 ("Tansy is very fresh still in some places");
November 18, 1852 ("Yarrow and tansy still. These are cold, gray days.");
November 18, 1855 ("Tansy still shows its yellow disks, but yarrow is particularly fresh and perfect, cold and chaste, with its pretty little dry-looking rounded white petals and green leaves.");
November 22, 1853 ("yarrow is particularly fresh and innocent");
November 23, 1852 ("Among the flowers which may be put down as lasting thus far, as I remember, in the order of their hardiness: yarrow, tansy (these very fresh and common) . . . and perhaps tall buttercup, etc.");
December 6, 1852 ("Tansy still fresh.");
December 12, 1852 ("Tansy still fresh yellow by the Corner Bridge.");
December 19, 1859 ("Yarrow too is full of seed now")
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