Solidago sempervirens |
Solidago sempervirens subsp. mexicana |
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seaside goldenrod, verge d'or toujours verte |
seaside goldenrod |
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Habit | Plants 40–200 cm; caudices short, stout. | |||||
Stems | 1–10(–20+), erect or ascending, glabrous throughout or hairy in arrays. |
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Leaves | rosettes present at flowering; basal and proximal cauline tapering to long, winged petioles sheathing stems or nearly so, blades narrowly ovate to oblanceolate, 100–400 × 10–60 mm, thick or fleshy, entire, acute, glabrous; mid to distal cauline usually numerous, sessile, blades lanceolate, 40–60 × 5–10 mm, reduced distally, thick or fleshy, bases sometimes subclasping, margins entire. |
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Peduncles | 2–3 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
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Involucres | 3–7 mm. |
3–4 mm. |
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Ray florets | 8–17; laminae 5–6.2 × 0.4–0.6 mm. |
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Disc florets | 10–22; corollas 3–3.2 mm, lobes 0.5–1.2 mm. |
ca. 10–16. |
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Phyllaries | in 3–4 series, unequal, lanceolate, margins ciliate, apices acute. |
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Heads | 20–500, secund, in paniculiform arrays, secund-pyramidal to broadly club-shaped, sometimes leafy proximally, at least proximal branches spreading-recurved, branches and peduncles bracteolate, bracteoles reduced distally. |
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Cypselae | (obconic) 1.1–1.5 mm, moderately strigose; pappi 3.8–4 mm (slightly clavate). |
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Rays | 7–11. |
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2n | =18. |
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Solidago sempervirens |
Solidago sempervirens subsp. mexicana |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–Dec. | |||||
Habitat | Dunes by ocean, edges of brackish marshes | |||||
Elevation | 0–10 m (0–0 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; CT; DE; FL; GA; IL; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MS; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; PA; RI; SC; TX; VA; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; Mexico; Central America; West Indies [Introduced inland around Great Lakes, introduced to Atlantic Islands (Azores)]
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AL; CT; DE; FL; GA; LA; MA; MD; MS; NC; NJ; NY; PA; RI; SC; TX; VA; Central America; Mexico (Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz); West Indies |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Solidago sempervirens is common along the seacoast from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to central America and the northern West Indies. Introduced populations are sometimes very large near the Detroit River and Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario, eastern Michigan, and adjacent Ohio. A second disjunct group of populations occurs in Illinois and Indiana in the Chicago area at the southern end of Lake Michigan. Two mostly geographically separate subspecies can be recognized in the flora range. A race also occurs in the Azores and is undoubtedly introduced there [Solidago sempervirens var. azorica (Hochstetter ex Seubert) H. St. John]. Plants cultivated in European gardens have been labeled S. sempervirens var. viminea (Aiton) A. Gray. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies mexicana is found along the coast from Massachusetts to Texas and southward. It may hybridize with Solidago stricta along the Florida Gulf coast. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 136. | FNA vol. 20, p. 137. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Solidago > subsect. Maritimae | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Solidago > sect. Solidago > subsect. Maritimae > Solidago sempervirens | ||||
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Synonyms | Aster sempervirens | S. mexicana, Aster mexicanus, S. sempervirens var. mexicana | ||||
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 878. (1753) | (Linnaeus) Semple: Sida 20: 1615. (2003) | ||||
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