Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago salicina
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago patula var. strictula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago patula ssp. strictula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Neotypification of Solidago salicina (Asteraceae: Astereae) and a multivariate comparison with S. patula (Semple, Tong, and Pastolero, 2012)
Solidago salicina
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Solidago patula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-019b:
Solidago patula var. strictula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago salicina
COMMON NAME:
Southern Roughleaf Goldenrod
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago salicina
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago patula var. strictula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago patula ssp. strictula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Neotypification of Solidago salicina (Asteraceae: Astereae) and a multivariate comparison with S. patula (Semple, Tong, and Pastolero, 2012)
Solidago salicina
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Solidago patula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-019b:
Solidago patula var. strictula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago salicina
4477
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare
Habitat: Streamhead pocosins, sandhill seepages, swamp edges, rarely inland in seepage over rock, 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 (gradually reduced upward)
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes short, stout
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in elongate secund inflorescences
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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