Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago tarda
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Atlantic Goldenrod's basal rosette leaves are smaller than those of S. arguta var. arguta and are blunt-toothed and rounded at the tip, which gives them a different gestalt. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago arguta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH A multivariate study of Solidago sect. Argutae (Asteraceae: Astereae) (Semple et al., 2021)
Solidago tarda
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 tarda
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-017?:
Solidago arguta FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solidago ludoviciana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago tarda
COMMON NAME:
Atlantic Goldenrod
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_soar_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago tarda
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago arguta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A multivariate study of Solidago sect. Argutae (Asteraceae: Astereae) (Semple et al., 2021)
Solidago tarda
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 tarda
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-017?:
Solidago arguta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solidago ludoviciana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago tarda
3662
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry pinelands, xeric fluvial sand ridges, Piedmont barrens and rocky woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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 rosette & alternate
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
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