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=== Seymour ===

The George Safford Torrey Herbarium at UConn contains a specimen of ''Opuntia vulgaris'' collected on June 7, 1903 by H. S. Clark in Seymour, Connecticut (CONN Accession #161633).  The elevation of the collection site is noted as being 102 feet above sea level.<ref name="gsth"></ref>  No further specifics are provided concerning the location of the colony from which the specimen was harvested.

The Yale University Herbarium also contains a specimen of ''Opuntia humifusa'' collected in Seymour, Connecticut by H. S. Clark (YPM CBS 025967)<ref name="yuh"></ref>.  No further specifics are provided concerning the location of the colony from which the specimen was harvested.  No date is associated with this specimen, however it may well have been collected the same day as the specimen contained in the Torrey Herbarium.

In a 1910 publication titled "Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Connecticut Growing Without Cultivation", author Charles B. Graves notes Seymour as a town known to support wild ''O. humifusa'' at that time.<ref name="catalogue-1910"></ref>