Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Solidago rugosa var. rugosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
In general, members of S. rugosa grow 2-4' tall and have widely branching inflorescences with heads along one side of each branch. Stems often are connected via horizontal rhizomes and thus form colonies. The entities within S. rugosa have been variously treated (or ignored) in the past. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. rugosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago rugosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. rugosa
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. rugosa
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. villosa
INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Solidago rugosa
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-029a:
Solidago rugosa var. rugosa FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solidago rugosa var. rugosa
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solidago rugosa var. villosa
COMMON NAME:
Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod, Roughstem Goldenrod
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Alan S. Weakley asw_23268557
April Cumberland County NC
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Alan S. Weakley asw_7575389
August Essex County NY
Adirondack Park
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7358
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
A curving panicle of branchlets lined with yellow florets, per Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002).
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7359
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Leaves relatively thin, not very rugose, usually sharply serrate, apices acuminate, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7363
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7366
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Mid-stem leaves widest below the middle, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7367
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7368
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Herbage sparsely to moderately relatively soft-hairy, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7369
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm221004_0240
October Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
Rays florets 4-13, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm221004_0243
October Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm181119_5929
November McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Stems from elongated creeping rhizomes, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Solidago rugosa var. rugosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. rugosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago rugosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. rugosa
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. rugosa
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. villosa
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Solidago rugosa
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-029a:
Solidago rugosa var. rugosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solidago rugosa var. rugosa
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solidago rugosa var. villosa
1430
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Fields, forests, wetlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Carolinas, rare in GA
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Leaves pinnately veined (not 3-nerved)
Leaves chiefly on the stem (basal & lower stem leaves either withering early or equal/smaller than middle & upper stem leaves)
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in well-developed paniculiform inflorescences
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p265?
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p170?
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p175?
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p448?
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p111?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p267?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p329?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p380?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p205?
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