Solidago latissimifolia

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Solidago latissimifolia
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1913 illustration [1]
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Solidago
Species:
S. latissimifolia
Binomial name
Solidago latissimifolia
Mill. 1768
Synonyms [2] [3]
Synonymy
  • Aster latissimifolius(Mill.) Kuntze
  • Dasiorima elliotiiRaf.
  • Solidago edisonianaMack.
  • Solidago elliottiiTorr. & A. Gray
  • Solidago ellipticaElliott
  • Solidago ellipticaAiton
  • Solidago mirabilisSmall

Solidago latissimifolia, common name Elliott's goldenrod, [4] is North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Canada, from Nova Scotia south to Alabama and Florida. [5]

Contents

Solidago latissimifolia is a perennial herb up to 400 cm (13 ft) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are elliptical, up to 15 cm (6 in) long. One plant can produce as many as 800 small yellow flower heads, in large branching arrays at the tops of the stems. The species grows in marshes (fresh water or brackish water) and thickets on the coastal plain. [6]

Conservation status in the United States

It is listed as endangered in New York, and as a species of special concern in Rhode Island. [7] It is a special concern and believed extirpated in Connecticut. [8]

Galls

This species is host to the following insect induced gall:

external link to gallformers

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<i>Solidago uliginosa</i> Species of flowering plant

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References

  1. USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 3: 392.
  2. "Solidago latissimifolia". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
  3. Leonard J. Uttal & Duncan M. Porter 1988. The correct name for Elliott's goldenrod. Rhodora Vol. 90, No. 862 (April 1988), pp. 157-168
  4. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Solidago latissimifolia". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  5. "Solidago latissimifolia". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
  6. Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006). "Solidago latissimifolia". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 20. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  7. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Solidago latissimifolia". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  8. "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2 January 2017.(Note: This list is newer than the one used by plants.usda.gov and is more up-to-date.)
  9. Kaltenbach, J.H. (1869). "Die deutschen Phytophagen aus der Klasse der Insekten [concl.]". Verh. Naturh. Ver. Preuss. Rheinl. 26 (3, 6): 106–224.