3711

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in NC-SC Coastal Plain (uncommon in GA, rare in Piedmont), endemic

Look for it in fields, forests, wetlands, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in well-developed paniculate inflorescences

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p187

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

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

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-49-029b:
Solidago rugosa var. celtidifolia   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera var. celtidifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Solidago celtidifolia