Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago patula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
A tall goldenrod in the NC mountains with huge basal leaves and growing in wet places is generally this species. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago patula var. patula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago patula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Neotypification of Solidago salicina (Asteraceae: Astereae) and a multivariate comparison with S. patula (Semple, Tong, and Pastolero, 2012)
Solidago patula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Solidago patula ssp. patula
INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Solidago patula
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-019a:
Solidago patula var. patula FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago rigida
COMMON NAME:
Northern Roughleaf Goldenrod
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JK Marlow jkm220412_6768
April Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm220412_6777
April Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm220605_8237
June Greenville County SC
Chandler Heritage Preserve
Blades relatively thick, margins serrate, apices acute, abaxially glabrous, adaxially scabrous, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm230606_3846
June Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm220809_9535
August Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm211018_4399
October Pickens County SC
...[inflorescence] in smaller plants sometimes narrower, denser, and elongate, but still secund, per Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist, 1991).
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JK Marlow jkm211018_4399b
October Pickens County SC
Bracteoles lanceolate, grading into phyllaries. Phyllaries in 3-4 series, unequal, obtuse, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm221004_0146
October Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm221004_0148
October Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
Basal and proximal cauline lvs abruptly narrowed to long, winged petioles, blades broadly ovate, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm221004_0158
October Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
Inflorescence paniculiform, generally w widely spreading, recurved-secund branches, per Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist, 1991).
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JK Marlow jkm221004_0161
October Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago patula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago patula var. patula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago patula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Neotypification of Solidago salicina (Asteraceae: Astereae) and a multivariate comparison with S. patula (Semple, Tong, and Pastolero, 2012)
Solidago patula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago patula ssp. patula
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Solidago patula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-019a:
Solidago patula var. patula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago rigida
1426
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: bogs, seepages over mafic rocks, grassy balds (as Whitetop Mountain), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in Mountains of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p446?
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p293
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p380
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p204
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