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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

 

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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

 

COMMON NAME:
 Hackberry-leaf Goldenrod

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image of Solidago rugosa var. celtidifolia, Hackberry-leaf Goldenrod

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_sodr_001_lvd

        

image of Solidago rugosa var. celtidifolia, Hackberry-leaf Goldenrod

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_srugosa_celtidifolia1

October    Moore County    NC

Stem leaves dark green, ovate, thick-textured with prominent veins, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.

image of Solidago rugosa var. celtidifolia, Hackberry-leaf Goldenrod

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_srugosa_celtidifolia2

October        

Stems moderately hairy, upper stem often arching, branches few or none, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.