Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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3861

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it in limestone barrens, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal present or absent at flowering)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Achene

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
 Solidago rigidiuscula   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Solidago speciosa var. rigidiuscula   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
 Solidago speciosa ssp. speciosa var. rigidiuscula

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Solidago rigidiuscula

 

COMMON NAME:
 Narrowleaf Showy Goldenrod, Slender Showy Goldenrod

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image of Solidago rigidiuscula, Narrowleaf Showy Goldenrod, Slender Showy Goldenrod

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_sori4_001_lvd

        

image of Solidago rigidiuscula, Narrowleaf Showy Goldenrod, Slender Showy Goldenrod

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_s_speciosa_rigidiuscu

October        

Heads not secund, in usually dense, sometimes open, elongate arrays, per Flora of North America.