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

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

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

 

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

• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p111
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p205

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

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)
Solidago spithamaea