OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago faucibus   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Solidago faucibus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Solidago faucibus

 

COMMON NAME:
Gorge Goldenrod


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image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm090425_018

April    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm090425_021

April    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

Rhizome.

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm070927_006

September    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

This is said to have the largest flowers of any of our Goldenrods.

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmseastatoensis_0

September    Pickens County    SC

The SC populations have a different polyploid derivation than S. faucibus s.s., per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmseastatoensis_2

September    Pickens County    SC

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmseastatoensis_5

September    Pickens County    SC

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsfaucibus_0

September?        

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm221103_0536

November    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm221103_0537

November    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

Basal & proximal leaf blades ovate, abruptly tapering to winged petioles, per Flora of North America.

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm221103_0538

November    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

Leaves abaxially glabrous, per Flora of North America.

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm221103_0542

November    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

Mid to distal cauline subsessile to sessile, progressively reduced distally, per Flora of North America.

image of Solidago faucibus, Gorge Goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm221103_0543

November    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

Basal and proximal leaves present at flowering, per Flora of North America.

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago faucibus   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Solidago faucibus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago faucibus

 

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2329

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina

Rare

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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 paniculiform inflorescences with heads secund on the branches

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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