Solidago brachyphylla
Solidago villosicarpa
Dixie goldenrod
glandular wand goldenrod, hairy-seed goldenrod
1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.
usually single, erect (proximally medium to dark brown distally lighter, sometimes cyanotic, usually rounded, shallowly many ribbed), sparsely finely hispido-strigose proximally to densely so in arrays.
basal petioles 3–5 cm, blades oblanceolate or spatulate to ovate or rotund, 2–4 cm (excluding petioles);
cauline (numerous) subsessile or sessile, blades elliptic or lance-elliptic to ovate, mid mostly 25–50(–65) × 10–25 mm, distal much reduced;
branch leaf petioles 1 mm, blades ovate, 5–15 (excluding petioles) × 2–10 mm.
rosettes often present at flowering, early leaves smaller;
basal and proximal cauline gradually to abruptly tapering to winged petioles, blades elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 90–210 (including petioles) × 40–70 mm, margins serrate-serrulate, ciliate, apices obtuse to broadly acute, faces abaxially glabrous or sparsely strigose, adaxially glabrous or sparsely strigose, mostly on nerves;
mid to distal cauline sessile, blades lanceolate or elliptic, 20–650 × 10–30 mm, gradually reduced distally, becoming entire, apices acute to acuminate.
linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.
0.5–11 mm, densely short hispido-strigose;
bracteoles 5–10+, grading into phyllaries, sparsely short hispido-strigose and sparsely to moderately glandular.
narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.
campanulate, 5–8 mm.
0(–2).
4–8;
laminae 5–7 × 1–2 mm.
4–8;
corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.
10–18;
corollas 5–7 mm, lobes 1.5–2.2 mm.
in 3–4 series, lanceolate, strongly unequal, margins ciliate, apices acute, glabrous.
in 4–5 series, appressed, strongly unequal, outer ovate, acute, mid and inner broadly oblong (appressed), obtuse or rounded, sparsely strigose and moderately finely stipitate-glandular.
75–200 in open paniculiform arrays, branches divaricate, ascending to recurved, weakly to strongly secund, to 50 cm, secondary branches less than 3 cm.
50–100+ (1–10 per branch, more on much elongated proximal branches), in elongate to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays 7–22 × 3–6 cm;
branches ascending, racemiform or paniculiform, not secund, longest to 1/2 length of arrays.
2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;
pappi 2 mm.
(fusiform to obconic) 2.5–3 mm, moderately long-strigose;
pappi 4–6 mm (some clavate).
= 18.
Solidago brachyphylla
Solidago villosicarpa
Solidago brachyphylla possibly occurs also in Mississippi.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Of conservation concern.
Solidago villosicarpa is known only from New Hanover, Onslow, and Pender counties. It has a habit similar to those of S. hispida and S. squarrosa, leaves similar to those of S. erecta, and stem pubescence similar to that of S. puberula. The large, glandular involucres are unique within subsect. Squarrosae. It was compared to S. sciaphila when first described; it is not very similar to that Midwestern species. It is likely either a large-headed diploid like S. squarrosa or possibly an allopolyploid.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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