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Description

Common name used in specimen book: Wild geranium. Native to southeastern Minnesota and other parts of North America. Taxonomy - Order: Geraniales; Family: Geraniaceae; Genus: Geranium L.; Species: Geranium maculatum L. Collected from "swampy places" in Witoka, Winona County, Minnesota, on May 20, 1899.

This botanical specimen was collected and included in Helen J. Monahan's final project for a Botany course in 1899 taught by John M. Holzinger at the Winona Normal School in Winona, Minnesota. It was included in a collection of sixty-seven specimens which can be viewed in the Botanical Specimen Book collection in OpenRiver.

Creation Date

6-1-1899

Item Type

Archival Material

Publisher

Winona State University

City

Winona, Minnesota

Department

Special Collections-Library

Disciplines

Botany | Life Sciences | Plant Biology | Plant Sciences | Science and Mathematics Education

Notes

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Rights Management

Requests to reproduce for educational purposes only are granted by the Winona County Historical Society. Please contact curator@winonahistory.org for more information.

Contributing Institution

Winona County Historical Society

Dimensions

11" x 16"

Physical Format

Book

Master File Format

TIFF; CR2

Fiscal Sponsor

This project has been financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.

Scanning Responsibility

Special acknowledgement to the Wisconsin State Herbarium and Mark Wetter for the use of their scanning equipment. Scanning performed by Darrell W. Krueger Library - Winona State University.

Date Digital

2020-02-18

Metadata Creation Responsibility

Allison Quam

Unique Identifier

2014_026_0001_070

Keywords

Botanical Specimen, Herbarium, Botany, Plant Specimen, Plant Ecology, Botany in Minnesota, Botany Student Work, Helen Monahan, Helen Josephine (Monahan) Rowekamp (1885-1967), Winona Normal School, Teacher Education, Plants, Flowers, Seeds, John Michael Holzinger (1853-1929), Professor John M. Holzinger, Winona, Palezoic Plateau, Driftless Area

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