Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago ptarmicoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Prairie Goldenrod appears in the field to be a short-rayed, white-flowered aster, somewhat similar to Sericocarpus linifolius. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oligoneuron album
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Oligoneuron album
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Solidago ptarmicoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster ptarmicoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster ptarmicoides
COMMON NAME:
Prairie Goldenrod, White Prairie-goldenrod, Upland White Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_aspt4_001_lvd
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Alan S. Weakley asw_107489402356050
May Granville County NC
Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, the longer (10-) 15-20× as long as wide, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Alan S. Weakley asw_10232179730292035
August
White Prairie-goldenrod is more likely to be mistaken for an "aster" than a goldenrod, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_solidago_ptarmicoides
August
Inflorescence corymbose (rounded). Rays white; more disk flowers than ray flowers, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago ptarmicoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oligoneuron album
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Oligoneuron album
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago ptarmicoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster ptarmicoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster ptarmicoides
2289
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Prairie-like barrens over mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rock, serpentine woodlands, prairies, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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: White (rarely pale yellow)
Disc: White (sometimes appearing yellow because of the exserted yellow anthers)
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in corymbose inflorescences
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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