1423

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon in GA-NC-SC Mountains, rare in Piedmont

Look for it in meadows, pastures, roadbanks, woodland borders, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in elongate secund inflorescences

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p446
• Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p090
• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p292
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p329
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p380
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p204

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Solidago juncea   FAMILY Asteraceae

(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago juncea   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago juncea var. juncea

INCLUDING Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Solidago juncea var. neobohemica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-016:
Solidago juncea   FAMILY Asteraceae