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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago bicolor
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Solidago bicolor
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-008:
Solidago bicolor FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago bicolor
COMMON NAME:
Silverrod, White Goldenrod
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sobi_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm080928_102
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Found in dry woods and open places, often in large numbers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm080928_109
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090913_132
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090913_136
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090913_141
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Stems 12-36" tall, soft-hairy, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm090913_144
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaf apex acute, margins crenate to crenate-serrate, base cuneate to attenuate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm090913_215
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
It has a stiff wandlike stem and a narrow elongate panicle, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm090913_221
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm140907_418
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
The only Solidago species with white rays, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm140907_420
September Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_bicolor_silverrodwh
September
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_091421gsmnp35
September Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Solidago bicolor
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Solidago bicolor
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-008:
Solidago bicolor
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Solidago bicolor
1414
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: woodlands, roadbanks, pastures, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC, rare in GA & SC
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Midstem leaves not 3-nerved
Leaves basally disposed (basal & lower stem leaves larger, petiolate, & usually persistent); middle and upper stem leaves smaller & less petiolate
Alternate & basal
Margins serrate to crenate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in elongate cylindrical inflorescences (narrowly panicle-like, wandlike, or clublike)
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p382
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p188
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p111
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p265
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p327
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p378
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p201
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