1418

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in Piedmont), endemic to the Central & Southern Appalachians

Look for it on moist forested slopes, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple

Leaves chiefly on the stem (basal & lower stem leaves either withering early or equal/smaller than middle & upper stem leaves)

Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary

Flower heads in axillary clusters in the well-spaced upper leaves

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p263
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p139
• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p290
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p110
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p327
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p379
• Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p443
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p201

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago curtisii   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago curtisii   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Solidago curtisii var. curtisii

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-002:
Solidago curtisii var. curtisii   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Solidago curtisii var. pubens

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Solidago curtisii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Solidago pubens

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Solidago caesia var. curtisii