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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Solidago bicolor
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago bicolor
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-008:
Solidago bicolor FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago bicolor
COMMON NAME:
Silverrod, White Goldenrod
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sobi_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm080928_102
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Found in dry woods and open places, often in large numbers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm080928_109
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090913_132
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090913_136
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090913_141
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Stems 12-36" tall, soft-hairy, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm090913_144
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaf apex acute, margins crenate to crenate-serrate, base cuneate to attenuate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm090913_215
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
It has a stiff wandlike stem and a narrow elongate panicle, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm090913_221
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm140907_418
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
The only Solidago species with white rays, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm140907_420
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_bicolor_silverrodwh
September
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_091421gsmnp35
September Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago bicolor
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago bicolor
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-008:
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago bicolor
1414
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: woodlands, roadbanks, pastures, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC, rare in GA & SC
Click here to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
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
Margins serrate to crenate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
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!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p382
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p188
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p111
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p265
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p327
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p378
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p201