Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago rigidiuscula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Narrowleaf Showy Goldenrod at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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, 1938)
Solidago rigidiuscula
COMMON NAME:
Narrowleaf Showy Goldenrod, Slender Showy Goldenrod
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sori4_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_speciosa_rigidiuscu
October
Heads not secund, in usually dense, sometimes open, elongate arrays, per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
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, 1938)
Solidago rigidiuscula
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
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
Leaves may be either basally disposed (basal & lower stem leaves larger and petiolate) or chiefly on the stem
Alternate (basal present or absent at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in axillary clusters or elongate non-secund inflorescences
FRUIT:
Achene
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