Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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2334

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in savannas, streamhead pocosins, flatwoods, swamps, seepages in pinelands, and disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

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 non-secund inflorescences

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Solidago puberula var. pulverulenta   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-49-009b:
 Solidago puberula var. pulverulenta   FAMILY Asteraceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Downy Goldenrod

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image of Solidago puberula var. pulverulenta, Downy Goldenrod

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmspuberula_jackson

September    Jackson County    NC

Stem leaves 50-85 below narrow panicles, usually puberulent beneath, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.