Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago austrina
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
There is no consensus among botanists that Southern Goldenrod and Graceful Goldenrod (S. gracillima) are truly distinct. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago gracillima
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Flora of North America
Solidago stricta ssp. gracillima
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VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-018?:
Solidago gracillima
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago austrina
COMMON NAME:
Southern Bog Goldenrod, Southern Goldenrod, Piedmont Wand Goldenrod
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_solidago_austrina2
September Richmond County NC
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_solidago_austrina4
October Richmond County NC
Flowers in a terminal 1-sided inflorescence, often w short arching branches, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_solidago_austrina5
October Richmond County NC
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JK Marlow jkm161001_752
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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JK Marlow jkm161001_752b
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
2-4 ray flowers & 6-8 disc flowers (vs. S. gracillima: 3-7 ray & 9-13 disc), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm161001_753
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Stem leaves rapidly smaller upward; margins minutely scabrous, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_754
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago austrina
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago gracillima
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Solidago stricta ssp. gracillima
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-018?:
Solidago gracillima
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago austrina
4052
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain (an endemic)
Habitat: Piedmont prairie remnants, openings in xeric hardpan forests, upland depressions, clay roadbanks and powerline rights-of-way, post oak savannas, and open oak-hickory woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Leaves basally disposed (basal & lower stem leaves larger, petiolate, & usually persistent); middle and upper stem leaves smaller & less petiolate
Basal & alternate, rapidly reduced and appressed to the stem upward
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads with 2-4 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in elongate secund inflorescences
FRUIT:
Achene
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