Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago erecta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Slender Goldenrod can appear "ordinary" for a goldenrod, but its stems and leaves are smooth (hairless), except for tiny hairs in the inflorescence branches. S. speciosa is similar in the field, but may reach 6', and has a broader, more crowded, and showier inflorescence. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago erecta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago erecta
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-011:
Solidago erecta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Solidago erecta
SYNONYMOUS WITH
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Solidago speciosa var. erecta
COMMON NAME:
Slender Goldenrod, Erect 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_soer_001_lvd
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May Oconee County SC
Boone's Creek Preserve
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August Greenville County SC
Jones Gap State Park
A smooth plant with a narrow, often interrupted, terminal inflorescence, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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August Greenville County SC
Caesars Head State Park
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August Greenville County SC
Caesars Head State Park
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September Greenville County SC
Basal & proximal cauline lvs tapering to long winged petioles (quickly reduced, per Flora of North America.
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October Oconee County SC
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October Greenville County SC
Stems are glabrous from the base to near or into the inflorescence, per Asterae Lab: Classification and illustrations of goldenrods (J.C. Semple).
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October Greenville County SC
Mid & distal cauline leaves sessile, blades linear-elliptic, margins entire, per Flora of North America.
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October Greenville County SC
Basal & proximal cauline lvs broadly oblanceolate to obovate, margins serrate, per Flora of North America.
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October Greenville County SC
Heads clustered on short divergent lateral branches, not secund, per Flora of North America.
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October Greenville County SC
Heads 1-10 per branch, per Flora of North America.
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October Greenville County SC
Ray florets 5-9. Disc florets commonly 6-10, per Flora of North America.
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October Greenville County SC
Phyllaries in 3-5 series, appressed, strongly unequal, per Flora of North America.
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October Greenville County SC
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October Greenville County SC
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October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Goldenrod bunch galls?
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October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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November Greenville County SC
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November Greenville County SC
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November Greenville County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Solidago erecta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago erecta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago erecta
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-011:
Solidago erecta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Solidago erecta
SYNONYMOUS WITH
-
Solidago speciosa var. erecta
1419
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Look for it in woodlands, old fields, woodland borders, grassy balds, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Leaves basally disposed (basal & lower stem leaves larger, petiolate, & usually persistent); middle and upper stem leaves smaller & less petiolate
Alternate, often also basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in elongate non-secund inflorescences which are often interrupted (heads on short divergent lateral branches)
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p132
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p452
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p290
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p327
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p379
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p203