Solidago buckleyi
Solidago villosicarpa
Buckley's goldenrod
glandular wand goldenrod, hairy-seed goldenrod
1–5+, sparsely to moderately short strigose or villous.
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 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.
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.
1–6 mm, moderately canescent;
bracteoles linear to lanceolate.
0.5–11 mm, densely short hispido-strigose;
bracteoles 5–10+, grading into phyllaries, sparsely short hispido-strigose and sparsely to moderately glandular.
campanulate, 4.5–5.5 mm.
campanulate, 5–8 mm.
6–8;
laminae 3–4 × 1–1.5 mm wide.
4–8;
laminae 5–7 × 1–2 mm.
8–14;
corollas 4–5 mm, lobes ca. 1.5 mm.
10–18;
corollas 5–7 mm, lobes 1.5–2.2 mm.
in ca. 3 series, strongly unequal, erect to slightly squarrose-tipped, lanceolate, apices acute, glabrate, sparsely to moderately, finely stipitate-glandular.
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.
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.
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.
(reddish brown) 2–3 mm, glabrous;
pappi 4–5 mm.
(fusiform to obconic) 2.5–3 mm, moderately long-strigose;
pappi 4–6 mm (some clavate).
Solidago buckleyi
Solidago villosicarpa
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.)
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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