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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago roanensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Roan Mountain Goldenrod at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago roanensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Solidago roanensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-010:
Solidago roanensis FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago roanensis
COMMON NAME:
Roan Mountain Goldenrod
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JK Marlow jkm0308v_30
August Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm140907_424
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
This 3-8dm tall Goldenrod lines roadbanks in our mountain counties, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm140907_428
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Ray florets 6-9, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm140907_439
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1543
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Its glabrate lower stem grades to densely puberulent in the inflorescence, per Asterae Lab: Classification and illustrations of goldenrods (J.C. Semple).
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JK Marlow jkm240905_0934
September Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm240905_0936
September Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm240905_0941
September Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm240905_0942
September Jackson County NC
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Steve Marlow snm140907_055
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
The inflorescence is narrow, densely flowered and cylindrical, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmsroanensis_whiteside1
Month Unknown Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Upper leaves sessile, lanceolate, surpassing lower portion of inflorescence, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago roanensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago roanensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago roanensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-010:
Solidago roanensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago roanensis
1429
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: forests, woodlands, roadbanks. Also along dry rocky ridges or ledges, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Carolina Mountains (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 elongate cylindrical inflorescences (narrowly panicle-like, wandlike, or clublike)
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p266
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p382
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p202
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