Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Solidago at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Reports of S. uliginosa south of NC are dubious and need additional evaluation; most southern material formerly identified as S. uliginosa is actually S. simulans or S. gracillima). Within S. uliginosa, var. uliginosa has a more southern distribution than var. peracuta. Read more in Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Solidago uliginosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-020:
Solidago uliginosa FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago uniligulata
COMMON NAME:
Northern Bog Goldenrod, Swamp Goldenrod
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_soun_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago uliginosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-020:
Solidago uliginosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago uniligulata
1436
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: bogs, wet meadows, mafic fens, acidic seepage swamps, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Leaves basally disposed (basal & lower stem leaves larger, petiolate, & usually persistent); middle and upper stem leaves smaller & less petiolate
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in elongate cylindrical inflorescences or in paniculiform inflorescences with heads secund on the branches
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p446
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p371
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p203
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