Solidago caesia |
Solidago verna |
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axillary goldenrod, blue-stem goldenrod, blue-stem or woodland or wreath goldenrod, verge d'or bleuâtre, wreath goldenrod |
spring-flowering goldenrod |
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Habit | Plants (20–)35–80(–100) cm; rhizomes woody, caudexlike. | Plants 50–120 cm; caudices branching, woody. | ||||
Stems | 1–10+, usually blue to purple, glaucous, arching, straight, usually simple, occasionally with 2–3(–4) elongated lateral branches, glabrous or slightly strigose in arrays. |
1, ascending-erect, softly short villous. |
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Leaves | basal withering by flowering; proximal to mid cauline sessile, blades lanceolate, (47–)70–100(–150) × 8–20(–30) mm, margins serrate (with 0–24 teeth per side), apices acuminate, faces abaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy, adaxially sparsely hairy; distal sessile, blades narrowly lanceolate, (20–)40–70(–100) × (3.4–)5.6–11(–17) mm, margins entire to slightly serrate, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
basal and proximal cauline winged-petiolate petioles (petioles 1/2+ leaf length), blades broadly ovate (or subcordate) to elliptic, 50–100(–160) × 30–40 mm, margins shallowly serrate-crenate, apices acute to obtuse, soft short-villous; mid and distal cauline subpetiolate or sessile, blades ovate to elliptic, 20–40 × 5–15 mm, greatly reduced, becoming narrowly elliptic. |
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Peduncles | 2–10 mm, sparsely to moderately strigose; bracteoles linear, 1–8. |
slender. |
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Involucres | narrowly campanulate, (3.5–)4.8–6(–7.2) mm. |
campanulate, 4–5 mm. |
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Ray florets | 1–6; laminae (1.5–)2–3(–4) × ca. 1 mm. |
usually 7–12; laminae 3–6 × 1.5–2 mm. |
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Disc florets | 3–6(–9); corollas 2–3(–4) mm, lobes (0.5–)1–1.5(–2) mm. |
usually 14–27; corolla tubes 4 mm, lobes 0.8–1 mm. |
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Phyllaries | in ca. 3 series, unequal, outermost lanceolate (1–1.7 mm), acute, innermost linear-oblong (2.3–4 mm), 1-nerved, obtuse to acute. |
in 3–4 series, broadly lanceolate, unequal, glabrate or sparsely short-strigose. |
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Heads | 9–380, in short, secund, axillary and terminal racemo-paniculiform clusters (4.4–)13–36(–58) cm. |
50–100, in paniculiform arrays, proximal branches obscurely to evidently recurved-secund. |
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Cypselae | 1–2(–2.5) mm, moderately to densely strigose; pappi 2–3(–3.7) mm. |
1.5–2.5, sparsely strigose; pappi ± 3 mm (shorter than corollas). |
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2n | = 18. |
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Solidago caesia |
Solidago verna |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | |||||
Habitat | Open woods, fields, dry bogs, roadsides of coastal plain | |||||
Elevation | 10–70 m (0–200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MO; MS; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; ON; QC
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NC; SC |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Solidago caesia is sometimes defined more broadly to include the erect-stemmed S. curtisii and S. ouachitensis. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Solidago verna is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 126. | FNA vol. 20, p. 133. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Solidago > subsect. Glomeruliflorae | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Solidago > subsect. Argutae > ser. Argutae | ||||
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Synonyms | Aster caesius | Aster vernus | ||||
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 879. (1753) | M. A. Curtis ex Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 205. (1842) | ||||
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