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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago hispida var. hispida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Hairy Goldenrod at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago hispida var. hispida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago hispida var. hispida
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Solidago hispida
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago hispida
COMMON NAME:
Hairy Goldenrod
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago hispida var. hispida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago hispida var. hispida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago hispida var. hispida
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago hispida
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago hispida
3398
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Dry rocky forests and woodland edges, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Midstem leaves not 3-nerved
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: Yellow (may turn cream with age)
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in elongate cylindrical inflorescences (narrowly panicle-like, wandlike, or clublike)
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p116
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p379
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p203
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