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Showy Goldenrod

Solidago erecta Banks ex Pursh

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Solidago erecta is mostly absent from the coastal plain in the southeastern United States.
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 119, 121,123 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Plants 30–120 cm; caudices erect, branched, thick. Stems usually single, erect, essentially glabrous basally to hispidulo-puberulent in arrays. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline tapering to long, winged petioles (quickly reduced distally on stems), blades broadly oblanceolate to obovate, 40–150 × 15–50 mm, margins serrate, finely ciliate, apices acute to obtuse, faces glabrous; mid and distal cauline sessile, blades linear-elliptic, 5–50 × 2–10 mm, margins entire, finely ciliate. Heads 15–350 (1–10 per branch), clustered on short divergent lateral branches in elongate and usually narrowly paniculiform arrays, often interrupted proximally, not secund, sometimes with ascending, straight or arching, elongate branches (like main axis). Peduncles 1–3 mm. Involucres narrowly campanulate, 3.5–6.5 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5 series, appressed, strongly unequal, outer ovate, inner broadly oblong, obtuse to rounded, glabrous. Ray florets 5–9; laminae 2.5–3.5 × 0.7–1 mm. Disc florets commonly 6–10; corollas 4 mm, lobes ca. 1 mm. Cypselae (tan) ca. 2.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 3 mm. 2n = 18.
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Synonym

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Solidago porteri Small; S. speciosa Nuttall var. erecta (Banks ex Pursh) MacMillan
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Solidago erecta

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Solidago erecta is a species of goldenrod known by the common names showy goldenrod[2] and slender goldenrod.[3] It is native to the eastern United States, from Massachusetts west to Indiana, and south as far as Georgia and Mississippi.[4]

Solidago erecta is a perennial herb up to 120 cm (4 feet) tall. One plant can produce as many as 350 small yellow flower heads in an elongated array.[3]

Galls

This species is host to the fillowing insect induced galls:

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References

  1. ^ The Plant List, Solidago erecta Pursh
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Solidago erecta". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  3. ^ a b Flora of North America, Solidago erecta Banks ex Pursh, 1813. Slender goldenrod
  4. ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map

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Solidago erecta: Brief Summary

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Solidago erecta is a species of goldenrod known by the common names showy goldenrod and slender goldenrod. It is native to the eastern United States, from Massachusetts west to Indiana, and south as far as Georgia and Mississippi.

Solidago erecta is a perennial herb up to 120 cm (4 feet) tall. One plant can produce as many as 350 small yellow flower heads in an elongated array.

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