OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago sphacelata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)

Solidago sphacelata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-021:

Solidago sphacelata   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Brachychaeta sphacelata

 

COMMON NAME:
Heartleaf Goldenrod, False Goldenrod, Limestone Goldenrod, Autumn Goldenrod


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image of Solidago sphacelata, Heartleaf Goldenrod, False Goldenrod, Limestone Goldenrod, Autumn Goldenrod

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_brsp3_001_lvd

        

image of Solidago sphacelata, Heartleaf Goldenrod, False Goldenrod, Limestone Goldenrod, Autumn Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm230717_4505

July    Greenville County    SC

Landrum Watershed

image of Solidago sphacelata, Heartleaf Goldenrod, False Goldenrod, Limestone Goldenrod, Autumn Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm230717_4507

July    Greenville County    SC

Landrum Watershed

image of Solidago sphacelata, Heartleaf Goldenrod, False Goldenrod, Limestone Goldenrod, Autumn Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm220927_0082

September    Greenville County    SC

Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve

Leaves ovate, acute to acuminate, serrate, long-petiolate or the upper sessile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Solidago sphacelata, Heartleaf Goldenrod, False Goldenrod, Limestone Goldenrod, Autumn Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm220927_0085

September    Greenville County    SC

Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve

image of Solidago sphacelata, Heartleaf Goldenrod, False Goldenrod, Limestone Goldenrod, Autumn Goldenrod

Samantha Tessel    sam_0220

September    Greenville County    SC

Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve

Erect to ascending-arching. Flower heads clustered mainly along 1 side of each arching branch, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

image of Solidago sphacelata, Heartleaf Goldenrod, False Goldenrod, Limestone Goldenrod, Autumn Goldenrod

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmssphacelata_0

October    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

The only Solidago of the southern mountains with cordate basal leaves, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Solidago sphacelata, Heartleaf Goldenrod, False Goldenrod, Limestone Goldenrod, Autumn Goldenrod

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmssphacelata_1

Month Unknown        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago sphacelata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago sphacelata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-021:
Solidago sphacelata   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1434

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: rock outcrops and dry rocky forests, usually over calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in SC) (rare in GA Piedmont)

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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)

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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