Solidago riddellii |
Solidago tortifolia |
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Riddell's goldenrod |
twist-leaf 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 30–130 cm; caudices small, woody, rhizomes creeping, elongate. |
Stems | 1–10+, erect, glabrous. |
1–10, ascending to erect, uniformly finely strigillose-villous distal to mid. |
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 cauline nearly always withering well before flowering, linear-oblanceolate, smaller than proximal mid cauline, serrate; proximal persisting, sometimes brown-black after senescence, often twisted; proximal to distal numerous (100+ on tall stems), crowded, sessile, blades (bright green) linear to linear-lanceolate, 20–70 × 2–7(–10) mm, margins remotely serrulate (proximal) to entire or with 1–2 minute serrations (distal), obscurely 3-nerved, one or both faces glabrous or finely strigillose. |
Peduncles | 2.8–4 mm, moderately short-hispido-strigose, lanceolate bracteoles 0–1. |
1–4 mm, finely strigilloso-villous; bracteoles 0–2, linear, grading into phyllaries. |
Involucres | narrowly campanulate, 4.5–6 mm. |
narrowly campanulate, 2.5–3.5 mm. |
Ray florets | 7–9; laminae 4.5–5.5 × 0.4–0.5 mm. |
2–8; laminae 1–2 × 0.25–0.5 mm. |
Disc florets | 6–10; corollas 4.5–5.2 mm, lobes 0.7–1.8 mm. |
2–4(–6); corollas 2.3–3.5 mm, lobes 0.4–1 mm. |
Phyllaries | (14–18) in 3–4 series, unequal, obtuse, broad, striations weak, obtuse to rounded, glabrous. |
in 3–4 series, strongly unequal; outer ovate, acute, inner oblong, obtuse to rounded. |
Heads | 30–450 in corymbiform to somewhat paniculiform with rounded corymbiform branches (robust plants) arrays, branches and peduncles strigillose. |
100–300+, in short to elongate, pyramidal paniculiform arrays, branches recurved, secund. |
Cypselae | 1.5–2.2 mm, glabrous; pappi 3.5–4 mm (apically clavate). |
(narrowly obconic) 1 mm, strigillose; pappi 2–3 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Solidago riddellii |
Solidago tortifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–Oct. | Flowering Aug–Nov (year-round). |
Habitat | Wet prairielike sites and marshy ground | Dry, usually sandy soils, pinelands, embankments |
Elevation | 100–400 m (300–1300 ft) | 0–100+ m (0–300+ ft) |
Distribution |
IL; IN; MI; MN; MO; OH; WI; MB; ON
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AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; VA
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 165. | FNA vol. 20, p. 158. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Ptarmicoidei | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Solidago > subsect. Triplinerviae |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Aster riddellii, Oligoneuron riddellii, S. amplexicaulis | |
Name authority | Frank: W. J. Med. Phys. Sci. 8: 499. (1835) | Elliott: Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 2: 377. (1823) |
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