Solidago nemoralis |
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Canada goldenrod, dyersweed goldenrod, field goldenrod, gray goldenrod, gray or gray-stem or old-field goldenrod, verge d'or des bois |
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Habit | Plants 20–100 cm; caudices short-branched. | ||||
Stems | 1–6(–10), erect, short-canescent (hairs ascending to appressed). |
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Leaves | basal and proximal cauline tapering to long, winged petioles, blades spatulate-ovate to oblanceolate, 20–95 × 7–15 mm, margins crenate to entire, apices acute, faces densely puberulent; mid and distal cauline (sometimes subtending axillary tufts of lateral branch leaves) sessile, blades linear-oblanceolate, 16–45 × 3–7 mm, reduced distally, margins entire. |
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Peduncles | 2–3.5 mm, bracteoles 0–4, linear. |
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Involucres | narrowly campanulate, 2.6–5.8 mm. |
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Ray florets | 5–11; laminae 2.8–5.5 × 0.3–0.7 mm. |
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Disc florets | 3–10; 2.5–4.6 mm, lobes 0.4-0.6 mm. |
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Phyllaries | in 3 series, ovate to linear-lanceolate, unequal, outer acute, inner obtuse. |
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Heads | 10–300, secund, in wandlike pyramidal, paniculiform arrays, secund to apically recurved, 8–25 × 2.5–10 cm, sometimes proximal branches elongate, repeating pattern. |
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Cypselae | (obconic) 0.5–2 mm, strigose; pappi 2–4 mm. |
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Solidago nemoralis |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; CO; CT; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VT; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC; SK
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). The arrays can be elongate with ends bent nearly 90–180°. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 159. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Solidago > subsect. Nemorales | ||||
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Name authority | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 3: 213. (1789) | ||||
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