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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago juncea   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago juncea   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Solidago juncea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Solidago juncea

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Solidago juncea var. juncea

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Solidago juncea var. neobohemica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-016:

Solidago juncea   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Solidago juncea

 

COMMON NAME:
Early Goldenrod


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image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_soju_001_lvd

        

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm230418_2572

April    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200625_6052

June    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Middle and upper stem leaves smaller and less petiolate than basal and lower stem leaves, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_solidago_juncea1

August    Moore County    NC

Inflorescence proximal branches spreading-recurved or widely ascending recurved (elmtree shaped), per Flora of North America.

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200926_7388

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Stem leaves not 3-nerved, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200926_7392

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200926_7450

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Basal leaves persistent but often withering at flowering time, per The Illustrated Flora of Illinois: Asteraceae, Part 1 (Mohlenbrock, 2015).

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm220909_9812

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm220909_9815

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm220909_9816

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm230901_5112

September    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Peduncles 1.5–6mm; bracteoles 0-2, linear. Phyllaries in 3-4 series, strongly unequal, per Flora of North America.

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm230901_5115

September    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Inflorescence sometimes ±short-hirsute. Rays 7-12, minute; disk flowers 9-14, per Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist, 1991).

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm230901_5115b

September    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm230901_5118

September    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Stems glabrous or nearly so. Petiole bases of basal and lower stem leaves not sheathing the stem, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

image of Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm231001_5753

October    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago juncea   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago juncea   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago juncea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago juncea

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago juncea var. juncea

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago juncea var. neobohemica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-016:
Solidago juncea   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago juncea

 

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1423

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Meadows, pastures, roadbanks, woodland borders, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in NC Mountains, rare in SC, uncommon elsewhere in GA & NC

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LEAVES:
Simple, upper with axillary fascicles of reduced leaves

Leaves basally disposed (basal & lower stem leaves larger, petiolate, & usually persistent); middle and upper stem leaves smaller & less petiolate

Alternate & basal

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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