Solidago simplex |
Solidago lepida |
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Mt. Albert goldenrod, sticky goldenrod |
Rocky Mountain goldenrod, western goldenrod |
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Habit | Plants 0.5–8 dm; with simple or branched root-crowns. | Plants 2–15 dm; rhizomatous. |
Stems | simple, sometimes basally clustered, glabrous or puberulent, sometimes stipitate-glandular distally. |
simple or branched, densely puberulent, often glabrate proximally. |
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. |
cauline; blades broadly to narrowly oblanceolate or elliptic, 4–15 cm; margins entire to denticulate or serrulate; tips acute; surfaces glabrous to sparsely villous; distal leaves sometimes minutely glandular, sessile or short-petioled. |
Inflorescences | panicle-like arrays; bracts present. |
thyrse-like or pyramidal arrays; bracts generally present above lower 1–3 nodes, reduced distally. |
Involucres | campanulate, 3–7 mm. |
campanulate, 2–5 mm. |
Ray florets | 7–15. |
7–20. |
Disc florets | 6–30; corollas 4–5.5 mm. |
2–13; corollas 2–5 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 3–5 series, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate; surfaces glabrous, slightly resinous; outer gradually shorter. |
in 3–5 series, linear-lanceolate; surfaces glabrous or minutely glandular; outer gradually shorter. |
Fruits | 2–3 mm, strigose. |
0.5–1.2 mm, strigillose. |
Heads | sessile to pedunculate. |
sessile to short- or long-pedunculate. |
2n | =18. |
=18, 36, 54. |
Solidago simplex |
Solidago lepida |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | North America. 11 varieties; 2 varieties treated in Flora. |
Forests, open woods, meadows, pastures, bogs, marshes, riverbanks. Flowering Jun–Oct. 0–2000 m. All ecoregions. CA, ID, NV, WA; throughout Canada and western US. Native. In Oregon, varieties lepida and salebrosa are not geographically or ecologically separate and show a blending of morphology. Here they are merged into the species S. lepida. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 346 Kenton Chambers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 345 Kenton Chambers |
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Synonyms | Solidago canadensis, Solidago canadensis ssp. salebrosa, Solidago canadensis var. salebrosa, Solidago lepida var. lepida, Solidago lepida var. salebrosa | |
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