Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago juncea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Early Goldenrod at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago juncea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago juncea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Solidago juncea
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago juncea var. juncea
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago juncea var. neobohemica
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-016:
Solidago juncea FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago juncea
COMMON NAME:
Early Goldenrod
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August Moore County NC
Stems glabrous [or nearly so]. Flower heads secund, in paniculiform arrays, per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago juncea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago juncea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago juncea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Solidago juncea
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago juncea var. juncea
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago juncea var. neobohemica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-016:
Solidago juncea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago juncea
1423
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Meadows, pastures, roadbanks, woodland borders, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains, rare in SC, uncommon elsewhere in GA & NC
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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, upper with axillary fascicles of reduced leaves
Leaves basally disposed (basal & lower stem leaves larger, petiolate, & usually persistent); middle and upper stem leaves smaller & less petiolate
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in paniculiform inflorescences with heads secund on the branches
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p446
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p292
- 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) p204