Solidago bicolor |
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silverrod, verge d'or bicolore, white goldenrod |
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Habit | Plants 20–100 cm; caudices branching. |
Stems | 1(–5), erect, usually branching only in array, moderately to densely hispido-villous. |
Leaves | basal and proximal cauline tapering to winged petioles, blades oblanceolate to ovate, 35–210 × 15–50 mm, margins serrate or crenate, apices acute, sparsely to moderately soft hispido-villous, more densely so on abaxial nerves; rosettes on rhizome branches sometimes present at flowering; mid and distal cauline sessile, blades elliptic, 15–50 × 5–15 mm, distally reduced, margins entire. |
Peduncles | 1.5–2.5 mm, hispido-villous to canescent. |
Involucres | campanulate, 3–5 mm. |
Ray florets | 7–9 (white); laminae 3.5–4 × 1–1.5 mm. |
Disc florets | 9–12; corollas 3–4 mm, lobes 0.6–1.2 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 3–4 series, appressed, strongly unequal, oblong, margins white, scarious, apices obtuse to rounded. |
Heads | 12–270 (1–15 per branch) in usually wand-shaped paniculiform arrays, of short axillary and terminal racemiform, non-secund clusters, sometimes proximal branches elongated, ascending and bearing short axillary and terminal racemiform clusters. |
Cypselae | (narrowly obconic) 1.5–2.5 mm, smooth or with 5–8 narrow, darker, sunken striations, glabrous or sparsely strigose; pappi 2.5–3.5 mm (sometimes strongly clavate). |
2n | =18. |
Solidago bicolor |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. |
Habitat | Sandy and clay soils, dry open woods, rocky slopes, disturbed soils |
Elevation | 0–1000+ m (0–3300+ ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DE; GA; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MO; MS; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; PA; RI; SC; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 120. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Solidago > subsect. Squarrosae |
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Synonyms | Aster bicolor, Aster pubens, S. alba, S. curtisii var. pubens, S. pubens |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 2: 556. (1767): Mant. 1: 114. (1767) |
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