Solidago buckleyi
Solidago ohioensis
Buckley's goldenrod
Ohio goldenrod
1–5+, sparsely to moderately short strigose or villous.
1–10+, erect, slender to stout (tall shoots), glabrous.
basal withering by flowering, petiolate, smaller to much smaller than cauline, blades oblanceolate, margins serrate;
cauline sessile, blades elliptic-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, mid 80–140 × 2.5–4 mm, distally reduced, usually membranous, bases tapering, attenuate, margins sharply toothed along much of length to nearly entire, ciliate, abaxial faces short-pilose along small and large nerves, adaxial short-pilose along larger nerves.
basal often persistent, also present as new rosettes at flowering, tapering to winged petioles to 250 mm, blades narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 50–150 × 15–45 mm, apices obtuse to acute, faces glabrous;
proximal cauline similar, reduced distally (petioles becoming less developed);
distal sessile, blades prominently 1-nerved, ovate to lanceolate, 75–100 × 8–12 mm, much reduced distally, margins entire, flat, apices acute.
1–6 mm, moderately canescent;
bracteoles linear to lanceolate.
6.3–8.5 mm, glabrous;
bracteoles 3, linear to lanceolate, sometimes grading into phyllaries.
campanulate, 4.5–5.5 mm.
campanulate, 4–5 mm.
6–8;
laminae 3–4 × 1–1.5 mm wide.
6–8;
laminae 4.6–5 × 0.5–0.7 mm.
8–14;
corollas 4–5 mm, lobes ca. 1.5 mm.
8–20;
corollas 4–4.5 mm, lobes 0.6–1 mm.
in ca. 3 series, strongly unequal, erect to slightly squarrose-tipped, lanceolate, apices acute, glabrate, sparsely to moderately, finely stipitate-glandular.
(14–18) in 3–4 series, broadly linear to ovate, unequal, obtuse, obscurely striate.
5–160 (2–10+ more per short branch cluster), in narrowly elongate paniculiform arrays, branches usually 1–6 cm (much longer in damaged plants, sometimes 1–3 proximal branches much elongated in undamaged plants), ascending and bearing short terminal racemiform or paniculiform clusters.
10–500+ in corymbiform arrays, branches glabrous.
(reddish brown) 2–3 mm, glabrous;
pappi 4–5 mm.
(obconic) 1.6–2.2 mm, glabrous;
pappi 2.5–3 mm (apically clavate).
= 18.
Solidago buckleyi
Solidago ohioensis
Solidago buckleyi is an uncommon species of mesic woods, most variable in the size and number of teeth on the large mid cauline leaves. Once seen, usually it is not easily confused with S. petiolaris. Reports from farther east are for plants of S. petiolaris.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Solidago ohioensis is most likely to be confused with S. riddellii, which has folded and multinerved leaves, and S. houghtonii, which has arrays with few large heads. Solidago ohioensis is found in the southwestern Great Lakes area and the flatlands region to the southwest. Hybrids between S. ohioensis and S. ptarmicoides occasionally occur where the two parents are sympatric. Those hybrids were described as S. ×krotkovii B. Boivin [Oligoneuron ×krotkovii (B. Boivin) G. L. Nesom] and can be similar to S. houghtonii.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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