1424

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in woodlands, glades, barrens, roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora

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...Variable ...Dry

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!

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p265
• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p176
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p170
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p174
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p446
• Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p197
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p266
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p329
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p381
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p203

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Solidago nemoralis var. nemoralis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago nemoralis var. nemoralis   FAMILY Asteraceae

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-49-022:
Solidago nemoralis   FAMILY Asteraceae