Pressed Botanical Specimen, Appalachian Wildflower

Made by Unknown collector1911Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia

A herbarium sheet carrying a pressed wildflower collected in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1911, with the collector's original locality label. Pre-industrial botanical vouchers are baseline data for studies of range shift and flowering-time change under a warming climate.

Provenance

1911

Collected and mounted, Blue Ridge Mountains

documented

1955

Transferred with a regional herbarium's duplicate collection

attributed

2010

Acquired by current collector

documented

2026

Digitally preserved in Relic

confirmed

Current Custodian

Dr. Adaeze Okafor

Mid-Atlantic, United States

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Record Metadata

CategoryNatural History

MaterialsDried plant tissue on rag paper; handwritten label

Dimensions42 × 29 cm sheet

ConditionFragile; some petal loss, label legible

Digital Record

24 high-res images (8,192 × 6,144)

3D Mesh / Photogrammetry

Precise digital measurements

Doc. Score: 58/100Scanned 8/30/2026

Cite this object

Relic Archive. (1911). Pressed Botanical Specimen, Appalachian Wildflower [Object record]. Relic Object RL-1911-000092.