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Solidago fistulosa - (image 1 of 4)

Taxonomy

Family: Asteraceae

Habitat

Pine barrens, in wet or dry soil.

Associates

 Distribution

Chiefly on the coastal plain from NJ south to FL and LA.

Morphology

Herbaceous perennial from long creeping rhizomes; stems 70-150 cm, stout, spreading hirsute at least above the middle; leaves mainly cauline, numerous, crowded, hirsute below along the midrib and less densely so between the veins, less hairy and often glabrous above, sessile, broad-based and somewhat clasping, lance-ovate to elliptic-oblong, weakly serrulate to subentire, the larger ones up to 12 cm long and 3.5 cm wide; inflorescence paniculiform, usually dense, with recurved-secund branches; involucres glabrous, 3.5-5 mm; involucral bracts thin and slender; rays 7-12, small; disk flowers 4-7; achenes short-hairy.

Notes

Flowers September to October

Wetland indicator: FACW

The cauline leaves of this species remind me of Solidago rigida but the inflorescence is quite different. Photographed in southern NJ.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

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