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):
Euthamia caroliniana   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euthamia caroliniana   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Euthamia caroliniana

INCLUDING Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Euthamia tenuifolia var. microcephala

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)

Euthamia tenuifolia

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-038:

Solidago microcephala   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)

Solidago tenuifolia

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

Euthamia minor

 

COMMON NAME:
Carolina Goldentop, Slender Flattop Goldenrod


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image of Euthamia caroliniana, Carolina Goldentop, Slender Flattop Goldenrod

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_eumi6_001_lvd

        

image of Euthamia caroliniana, Carolina Goldentop, Slender Flattop Goldenrod

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_eute7_001_lvd

        

image of Euthamia caroliniana, Carolina Goldentop, Slender Flattop Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm081009_104

October    Dorchester County    SC

Euthamia has flat-topped inflorescences & fine glandular dots on its leaves, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Euthamia caroliniana, Carolina Goldentop, Slender Flattop Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm081009_121

October    Dorchester County    SC

image of Euthamia caroliniana, Carolina Goldentop, Slender Flattop Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm081009_125

October    Dorchester County    SC

Leaves linear, 2-7cm long, 1-3mm wide, glabrous, 1-veined, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Euthamia caroliniana, Carolina Goldentop, Slender Flattop Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm161001_804

September    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

 

 

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euthamia caroliniana   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Euthamia caroliniana

INCLUDING Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Euthamia tenuifolia var. microcephala

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Euthamia tenuifolia

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-038:
Solidago microcephala   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Solidago tenuifolia

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2288

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine savannas, moist forests, ditches, pastures, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon to rare in Piedmont)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Midstem leaves not 3-nerved

Leaves chiefly on the stem (basal & lower stem leaves either withering early or equal/smaller than middle & upper stem leaves)

Alternate
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in corymbose inflorescences

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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