Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Solidago ptarmicoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Prairie Goldenrod appears in the field to be a short-rayed, white-flowered aster, somewhat similar to Sericocarpus linifolius. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oligoneuron album
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago ptarmicoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster ptarmicoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster ptarmicoides
COMMON NAME:
Prairie Goldenrod, White Prairie-goldenrod, Upland White Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_aspt4_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_solidago_ptarmicoides
August
Inflorescence corymbose (rounded). Rays white; more disk flowers than rays, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Solidago ptarmicoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oligoneuron album
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago ptarmicoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster ptarmicoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster ptarmicoides
2289
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare
Habitat: Prairie-like barrens over mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rock, serpentine woodlands, prairies, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White (rarely pale 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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