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Mt. Albert goldenrod, sticky goldenrod

Rocky Mountain goldenrod, western goldenrod

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

Distribution
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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
Sibling taxa
S. elongata, S. gigantea, S. lepida, S. missouriensis, S. multiradiata, S. spathulata, S. spectabilis, S. velutina
S. elongata, S. gigantea, S. missouriensis, S. multiradiata, S. simplex, S. spathulata, S. spectabilis, S. velutina
Subordinate taxa
S. simplex var. nana, S. simplex var. simplex
Synonyms Solidago canadensis, Solidago canadensis ssp. salebrosa, Solidago canadensis var. salebrosa, Solidago lepida var. lepida, Solidago lepida var. salebrosa
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