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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 vaseyi   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A multivariate study of Solidago sect. Argutae (Asteraceae: Astereae) (Semple et al., 2021)

Solidago vaseyi

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Solidago arguta var. caroliniana

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

Solidago arguta ssp. caroliniana var. caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)

Solidago arguta var. caroliniana

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-017:

Solidago arguta   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Solidago boottii var. caroliniana

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

Solidago yadkinensis

 

COMMON NAME:
Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod


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image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200706_6463

July    Spartanburg County    SC

In cultivation

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm220705_8895

July    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200804_6815

August    Spartanburg County    SC

Stem leaves gradually smaller, narrower, less toothed, eventually stalkless, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm210807_2534

August    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm210819_2924

August    Greenville County    SC

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm210819_2931

August    Greenville County    SC

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200907_7109

September    Greenville County    SC

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200907_7110

September    Greenville County    SC

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200907_7112

September    Greenville County    SC

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200907_7113

September    Greenville County    SC

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200920_7332

September    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Grows from a rosette of ovate, sharply toothed basal leaves w winged stalks, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm200920_7333

September    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm211001_3949

October    Greenville County    SC

Heads secund, in open, leafy, paniculiform arrays with recurved branches (sometimes elongate), per Flora of North America.

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm211001_3949b

October    Greenville County    SC

Phyllaries in 3-4 series, unequal; outer ovate, acute, inner linear-oblong, ciliate, obtuse, per Flora of North America.

image of Solidago vaseyi, Vasey's Goldenrod, Atlantic Goldenrod

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsarguta_buzzard

Month Unknown    Oconee County    SC

Buzzard Roost Heritage Preserve

Panicle about as broad as long, its branches bearing recurved, second heads, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A multivariate study of Solidago sect. Argutae (Asteraceae: Astereae) (Semple et al., 2021)
Solidago vaseyi

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago arguta ssp. caroliniana var. caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Solidago arguta var. caroliniana

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-017:
Solidago arguta   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago boottii var. caroliniana

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

 

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2104

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: forests, woodlands, grassy balds, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Basal rosettes evergreen?
Simple

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

Basal & alternate (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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