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bushy goldentop, Mississippi Valley goldentop

Habit Perennials or subshrubs, 30–100 cm.
Stems

(erect, striate-angled) glabrous, not glaucous.

Leaves

ascending to spreading-ascending;

blades 3- or -5-nerved, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 40–80 × 3–6(–9) mm, lengths 8–18 times widths, abruptly reduced distally, firm-herbaceous, margins scabrous, apices mostly acute, faces glabrous, little and obscurely gland-dotted (9–29 dots per mm²), sometimes pustulate.

Involucres

obconic, 4–6 mm.

Ray florets

usually 7–14.

Disc florets

3–6;

corollas 3.3–4.4 mm.

Phyllaries

yellowish at bases, usually green-tipped, outer narrowly ovate, inner nearly linear, apices rounded to subacute (sometimes slightly resinous).

Heads

glomerate or pedunculate, in compact, usually round-topped arrays 6–35% of plant heights.

2n

= 18.

Euthamia leptocephala

Phenology Flowering Sep–Nov.
Habitat Moist, sandy soils of open areas, woodlands, and forest openings
Elevation 0–100 m (0–300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MO; MS; NC; OK; TN; TX
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Discussion

I have seen no specimens of Euthamia leptocephala from Kentucky; it is to be expected there.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 100.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Euthamia
Sibling taxa
E. caroliniana, E. graminifolia, E. gymnospermoides, E. occidentalis
Synonyms Solidago leptocephala
Name authority (Torrey & A. Gray) Greene ex Porter & Britton: Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 5: 321. (1894)
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