Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Solidago jacksonii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read how taxonomy affects conservation decision-making from Alan Weakley and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
In 2020, Weakley transferred Solidago rigida to Oligoneuron. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oligoneuron rigidum var. glabratum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
(?)
Weakley's Flora (2020)
Oligoneuron jacksonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago rigida ssp. glabrata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-033?:
Solidago rigida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago rigida var. glabrata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solidago jacksonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oligoneuron jacksonii
COMMON NAME:
Southeastern Stiff Goldenrod, Southeastern Bold Goldenrod
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_rigida_glabrata_9
September
More disk flowers than ray flowers, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_solidago_rigida_2
September
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Eric Ungberg ung_20180907_175416_1
September Granville County NC
Picture Creek Diabase Barrens
Inflorescence corymbose [rounded], per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_solidago_rigida_5
October
Stem leaves sessile, oval, very stiff, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Solidago jacksonii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oligoneuron rigidum var. glabratum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
(?)
Weakley's Flora (2020)
Oligoneuron jacksonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago rigida ssp. glabrata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-033?:
Solidago rigida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago rigida var. glabrata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solidago jacksonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oligoneuron jacksonii
2290
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare and scattered throughout its range
Look for it in glades, barrens, and prairie-like areas, over mafic (such as diabase) or calcareous (such as calcareous shale) rocks, and in adjacent disturbed areas, such as roadbanks and powerline rights-of-way, 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
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p112?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p382?