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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Solidago austrina   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago gracillima   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Solidago austrina

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

Solidago stricta ssp. gracillima

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Solidago gracillima

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-018?:

Solidago gracillima   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Solidago austrina

 

COMMON NAME:
Piedmont Wand Goldenrod


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image of Solidago austrina, Piedmont Wand Goldenrod

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_solidago_austrina2

September    Richmond County    NC

image of Solidago austrina, Piedmont Wand Goldenrod

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_solidago_austrina4

October    Richmond County    NC

Flowers in a terminal 1-sided inflorescence, often w short arching branches, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Solidago austrina, Piedmont Wand Goldenrod

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_solidago_austrina5

October    Richmond County    NC

image of Solidago austrina, Piedmont Wand Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm161001_752

October    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

image of Solidago austrina, Piedmont Wand Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm161001_752b

October    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

S. austrina has 2-4 ray flowers & 6-8 disc flowers (vs. S. gracillima: 3-7 ray & 9-13 disc), per Weakley's Flora (2023).

image of Solidago austrina, Piedmont Wand Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm161001_753

October    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

Stem leaves rapidly smaller upward; margins minutely scabrous, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Solidago austrina, Piedmont Wand Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm161001_754

October    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Solidago austrina   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago gracillima   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago austrina

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago stricta ssp. gracillima

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago gracillima

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-018?:
Solidago gracillima   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4052

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Piedmont prairie remnants, openings in xeric hardpan forests, upland depressions, clay roadbanks and powerline rights-of-way, post oak savannas, and open oak-hickory woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in NC Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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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

Basal & alternate, rapidly reduced and appressed to the stem upward

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Flower heads with 2-4 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in elongate cylindrical inflorescences or in paniculiform inflorescences with heads secund on the branches

FRUIT:
Achene

 

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