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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Solidago virgata   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago stricta   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Solidago stricta ssp. stricta

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-013:

Solidago stricta   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Solidago petiolata

 

COMMON NAME:
 Southern Wand Goldenrod

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image of Solidago virgata, Southern Wand Goldenrod

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_sost_001_lvd

        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago stricta   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
 Solidago stricta ssp. stricta

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-013:
 Solidago stricta   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4478

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine savannas, Coastal Plain bogs, pocosins, marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain

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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 & appressed to the stem upward)
Petiole bases of basal and lower stem leaves sheathing the stem
Margins entire

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes long, often thick

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
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:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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