Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago canadensis var. hargeri
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Solidago at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago canadensis var. hargeri
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago canadensis var. hargeri
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago canadensis var. canadensis
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago canadensis
COMMON NAME:
Harger's Common Goldenrod, Harger's Canada Goldenrod
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago canadensis var. hargeri
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago canadensis var. hargeri
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago canadensis var. hargeri
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago canadensis var. canadensis
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago canadensis
1417
Forb
Perennial
Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare (likely more common, but misrepresented due to confusion with S. altissima)
Look for it in old fields, pastures, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Variable
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Midstem leaves 3-nerved
Leaves chiefly on the stem (basal & lower stem leaves either withering early or equal/smaller than middle & upper stem leaves)
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in well-developed paniculate inflorescences
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p174?
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p448
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p267
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p328?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p205