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Winter Recess: Harvard Library and the University are closed from noon on Wednesday, December 24, 2025 through Thursday, January 1, 2026. Check library hours and view our services schedule.

Exhibit

Virtual: Unweeded — Guides to Villainous Vegetation

View the second place collection in the 2020 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting
picture of a book interior, with a drawing of a jimson weed
picture of a book interior, with a drawing of a jimson weed

Dec 3, 2020 through Dec 3, 2022

Open to the public

Location

Online only
Lamont Library
1 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Weeds are weeds because they are disruptors, because they represent a failure of absolute control over our built environment, because they do not conform. And yet, they are beautiful. This collection of field guides showcases this beauty.

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