NameThatPlant.net: Solidago roanensis

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago roanensis FAMILY Asteraceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Roan Mountain Goldenrod at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago roanensis FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-010:

Solidago roanensis FAMILY Asteraceae

COMMON NAME:
Roan Mountain Goldenrod

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago roanensis FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago roanensis FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-010:
Solidago roanensis FAMILY Asteraceae

1429

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: forests, woodlands, roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple

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
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in elongate cylindrical inflorescences (narrowly panicle-like, wandlike, or clublike)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

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