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 ptarmicoides   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Solidago ptarmicoides, Prairie Goldenrod, White Prairie-goldenrod, Upland White Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_aspt4_001_lvd

        

image of Solidago ptarmicoides, Prairie Goldenrod, White Prairie-goldenrod, Upland White Aster

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).

image of Solidago ptarmicoides, Prairie Goldenrod, White Prairie-goldenrod, Upland White Aster

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).

image of Solidago ptarmicoides, Prairie Goldenrod, White Prairie-goldenrod, Upland White Aster

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

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

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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

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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