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Mt. Albert goldenrod, sticky goldenrod

Habit Plants 0.5–8 dm; with simple or branched root-crowns.
Stems

simple, sometimes basally clustered, glabrous or puberulent, sometimes stipitate-glandular distally.

Leaves

basal and cauline;

blades round, broadly elliptic, spatulate, orbiculate, or linear, 1–10 cm;

margins entire to denticulate or dentate;

tips rounded to obtuse or acute;

surfaces glabrous, slightly resinous;

basal sometimes present at flowering.

Inflorescences

panicle-like arrays;

bracts present.

Involucres

campanulate, 3–7 mm.

Ray florets

7–15.

Disc florets

6–30;

corollas 4–5.5 mm.

Phyllaries

in 3–5 series, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate;

surfaces glabrous, slightly resinous; outer gradually shorter.

Fruits

2–3 mm, strigose.

Heads

sessile to pedunculate.

2n

=18.

Solidago simplex

Distribution
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Discussion

North America. 11 varieties; 2 varieties treated in Flora.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 346
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
S. elongata, S. gigantea, S. lepida, S. missouriensis, S. multiradiata, S. spathulata, S. spectabilis, S. velutina
Subordinate taxa
S. simplex var. nana, S. simplex var. simplex
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