Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago vaseyi
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Overall, Atlantic Goldenrod usually is a much more slender plant than Forest Goldenrod (S. arguta), with broadly spreading inflorescence branches. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH A multivariate study of Solidago sect. Argutae (Asteraceae: Astereae) (Semple et al., 2021)
Solidago vaseyi
INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Solidago arguta ssp. caroliniana var. caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-017:
Solidago arguta FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago boottii var. caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago yadkinensis
COMMON NAME:
Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod
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JK Marlow jkm200706_6463
July Spartanburg County SC
In cultivation
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JK Marlow jkm220705_8895
July Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200804_6815
August Spartanburg County SC
Stem leaves gradually smaller, narrower, less toothed, eventually stalkless, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm210807_2534
August Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm210819_2924
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm210819_2931
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200907_7109
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200907_7110
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200907_7112
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200907_7113
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200920_7332
September Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Grows from a rosette of ovate, sharply toothed basal leaves w winged stalks, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm200920_7333
September Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm211001_3949
October Greenville County SC
Heads secund, in open, leafy, paniculiform arrays with recurved branches (sometimes elongate), per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm211001_3949b
October Greenville County SC
Phyllaries in 3-4 series, unequal; outer ovate, acute, inner linear-oblong, ciliate, obtuse, per Flora of North America.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmsarguta_buzzard
Month Unknown Oconee County SC
Buzzard Roost Heritage Preserve
Panicle about as broad as long, its branches bearing recurved, second heads, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago vaseyi
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A multivariate study of Solidago sect. Argutae (Asteraceae: Astereae) (Semple et al., 2021)
Solidago vaseyi
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago arguta ssp. caroliniana var. caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-017:
Solidago arguta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago boottii var. caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago yadkinensis
2104
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: forests, woodlands, grassy balds, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Basal rosettes evergreen?
Simple
Leaves basally disposed (basal & lower stem leaves larger, petiolate, & usually persistent); middle and upper stem leaves smaller & less petiolate
Basal & alternate (reduced upward)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads 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!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p150
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p116?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p380
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p135
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