Solidago riddellii |
Solidago brachyphylla |
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Riddell's goldenrod |
Dixie goldenrod |
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Habit | Plants 40–100 cm; caudices branching; vascular bundles and petiole bases marcescent (attached to old stems for more than a season). | Plants 50–120 cm; rhizomes short, caudexlike. |
Stems | 1–10+, erect, glabrous. |
1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent. |
Leaves | basal and proximal cauline usually withering by flowering (other rosettes may be present), tapering to long, winged petioles, blades often recurved, linear- lanceolate or -oblanceolate, 100–240 × 8–16 mm, folded along midrib (V-shaped in cross section), bases usually with (2–)3–8 prominent lateral nerves, apices acute to obtuse, faces glabrous; mid to distal cauline sessile, blades recurved, linear-lanceolate, 50–70 × 8–11 mm, reduced distally, folded, bases with prominent lateral nerves. |
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. |
Peduncles | 2.8–4 mm, moderately short-hispido-strigose, lanceolate bracteoles 0–1. |
linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate. |
Involucres | narrowly campanulate, 4.5–6 mm. |
narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm. |
Ray florets | 7–9; laminae 4.5–5.5 × 0.4–0.5 mm. |
0(–2). |
Disc florets | 6–10; corollas 4.5–5.2 mm, lobes 0.7–1.8 mm. |
4–8; corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm. |
Phyllaries | (14–18) in 3–4 series, unequal, obtuse, broad, striations weak, obtuse to rounded, glabrous. |
in 3–4 series, lanceolate, strongly unequal, margins ciliate, apices acute, glabrous. |
Heads | 30–450 in corymbiform to somewhat paniculiform with rounded corymbiform branches (robust plants) arrays, branches and peduncles strigillose. |
75–200 in open paniculiform arrays, branches divaricate, ascending to recurved, weakly to strongly secund, to 50 cm, secondary branches less than 3 cm. |
Cypselae | 1.5–2.2 mm, glabrous; pappi 3.5–4 mm (apically clavate). |
2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose; pappi 2 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Solidago riddellii |
Solidago brachyphylla |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–Oct. | Flowering (Sep–)Oct(–Nov). |
Habitat | Wet prairielike sites and marshy ground | Open woods, coastal plain, and piedmont |
Elevation | 100–400 m (300–1300 ft) | 10–100+ m (0–300+ ft) |
Distribution |
IL; IN; MI; MN; MO; OH; WI; MB; ON
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AL; FL; GA; NC; SC
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Discussion | Solidago brachyphylla possibly occurs also in Mississippi. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 165. | FNA vol. 20, p. 133. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Ptarmicoidei | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Solidago > subsect. Argutae > ser. Argutae |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Aster riddellii, Oligoneuron riddellii, S. amplexicaulis | S. boottii var. brachyphylla, S. pallescens |
Name authority | Frank: W. J. Med. Phys. Sci. 8: 499. (1835) | Chapman ex Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 218. (1842) |
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