Polygonatum pubescens WFNY-021

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Description: English: Polygonatum pubescens Hairy Solomon's-seal Original description: Hairy Solomon's-seal - Polygonatum biflorum (Walter) Elliott Note: Hairy Solomon's-seal, as described in Wild Flowers of New York (1918) was and still is Polygonatum pubescens (Willd.) Pursh (1814). Many authors of the early 20th century were misapplying P. biflorum to P. pubescens. Homer House had corrected this error in his 1924 Annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of New York state.]. Date: 1918. Source: Wild Flowers of New York Part 1, Plate 21. University of the State of New York, State Museum, Albany. Author: Homer D. House, New York State Botanist. Walter B. Starr of the Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, and Harold H. Snyder of the Zeese-Wilkinson Company, New York, photographers.