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Solidago verna
M.A. Curtis ex Torr. & A. Gray
Family:
Asteraceae
Spring-Flowering Goldenrod
FNA
Resources
John C. Semple, Rachel E. Cook in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Plants
50-120 cm; caudices branching, woody.
Stems
1, ascending-erect, softly short villous.
Leaves:
basal and proximal cauline winged-petiolate petioles (petioles
1
/ 2 + leaf length), blades broadly ovate (or subcordate) to elliptic, 50-100(-160) × 30-40 mm, margins shallowly serrate-crenate, apices acute to obtuse, soft short-villous; mid and distal cauline subpetiolate or sessile, blades ovate to elliptic, 20-40 × 5-15 mm, greatly reduced, becoming narrowly elliptic.
Heads
50-100 , in paniculiform arrays, proximal branches obscurely to evidently recurved-secund.
Peduncles
slender.
Involucres
campanulate, 4-5 mm.
Phyllaries
in 3-4 series, broadly lanceolate, unequal, glabrate or sparsely short-strigose.
Ray florets
usually 7-12; laminae 3-6 × 1.5-2 mm.
Disc florets
usually 14-27; corolla tubes 4 mm, lobes 0.8-1 mm.
Cypselae
1.5-2.5, sparsely strigose;
pappi
± 3 mm (shorter than corollas).
2
n
= 18.
Flowering May-Jun. Open woods, fields, dry bogs, roadsides of coastal plain; 10-70 m; N.C., S.C.
Solidago verna
is in the Center for Plant Conservation´s National Collection of Endangered Plants.
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