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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Solidago rugosa var. aspera
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
In North Carolina, var. aspera is the most widespread and common of the S. rugosa entities. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera var. aspera
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago aspera
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera var. aspera
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera
INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Solidago rugosa
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-029a?:
Solidago rugosa var. rugosa FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago altissima
COMMON NAME:
Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod
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August Greenville County SC
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September Durham County NC
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September Durham County NC
In var. aspera, leaf surface is much more wrinkled, thicker textured, ...
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September Durham County NC
...and more scabrous than in vars. rugosa and cronquistiana, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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September Durham County NC
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September Durham County NC
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September Durham County NC
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Alan S. Weakley asw_185794440_1
October Chatham County NC
Inflorescences broad, lower lateral branches generally much longer than the subtending leaves, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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October Chatham County NC
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October Chatham County NC
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Alan S. Weakley asw_185794440_4
October Chatham County NC
Lvs ~ thick & firm, strongly rugose, usually subentire to bluntly serrate, apices oft only acute, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Alan S. Weakley asw_62080371_1
October Orange County NC
The inflorescence is much more open and widely branching than in vars. rugosa and cronquistiana, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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October Orange County NC
Upper stem leaves lanceolate to elliptic, not much reduced relative to leaves lower on the stem, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Solidago rugosa var. aspera
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera var. aspera
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago aspera
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera var. aspera
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Solidago rugosa
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-029a?:
Solidago rugosa var. rugosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago altissima
3489
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Fields, forests, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Leaves pinnately veined (not 3-nerved)
Leaves chiefly on the stem (basal & lower stem leaves either withering early or equal/smaller than middle & upper stem leaves)
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in well-developed paniculiform inflorescences
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p265?
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p170?
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p175?
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p448?
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p294?
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p111?
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p117?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p329?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p380?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p205?
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p187
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