#eastern wahoo

[julianplum]

🌿🫐🌸🪶🌱🌼 // cover of the Wild Seed Project's Gardening for Biodiversity: Native Plants for the Northeast // gouache on hot press paper // 18" x 24"

[mellowcat-artist]

Wahoo!

American Wahoo (Euonymus atropurpureus), also known as Eastern Wahoo or Pink Bittersweet.

New Jersey, November 18, 2017.

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[carnegiemuseumnaturalhistory]

Collected on this Day in 1935

This eastern wahoo (Euonymus atropurpureus) specimen was collected near Connellsville, Pennsylvania on January 12, 1935 by John Franklin Lewis. 

Eastern wahoo is native to midwestern states and parts of Pennsylvania. This specimen is part of Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s hidden botany collection. 

Botanists at Carnegie Museum of Natural History share pieces of the herbarium’s historical hidden collection on the dates they were discovered or collected. Check back for more!