Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago spithamaea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Blue Ridge Goldenrod at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago spithamaea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago spithamaea
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Solidago spithamea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-007:
Solidago spithamaea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago spithamaea
COMMON NAME:
Blue Ridge Goldenrod
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JK Marlow jkm0407w_07
July Mitchell County NC
The Roan Highlands
Flower heads in compact corymbs; stem leaves > 1cm wide, upper not clasping, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago spithamaea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago spithamaea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago spithamaea
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Solidago spithamea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-007:
Solidago spithamaea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago spithamaea
1868
Forb
Perennial
Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare, narrowly endemic to three mountains in NC-TN
Look for it in crevices of sloping to nearly vertical outcrops of high elevation rocky summits on Grandfather Mtn, Hanging Rock Mtn, and Roan Mtn, 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.
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
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in corymbose inflorescences
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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