2287

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare (an endemic)

Look for it in bogs and pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, rapidly reduced and appressed to the stem upward

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p110?
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p186?

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Solidago stricta   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago gracillima   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Solidago stricta ssp. gracillima

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-013:
Solidago gracillima   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Solidago perlonga