Solidago fistulosa Mill.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Asteraceae

• Scientific Name

  Solidago fistulosa Mill.

• Description

  Species Description - Stems 7–15 dm from long creeping rhizomes, stout, conspicuously spreading-hirsute, at least above the middle; lvs chiefly cauline, numerous, crowded, strongly hirsute on the midrib beneath, and often less densely so across the surface, less hairy or more often glabrous above, sessile, broad-based and somewhat clasping, lance-ovate to elliptic-oblong, obscurely serrulate or subentire, the larger ones 3.5–12 × 1–3.5 cm; infl paniculiform, usually dense, with recurved-secund branches; invol glabrous, 3.5–5 mm, its bracts thin and slender; rays 7–12, small; disk fls 4–7; achenes short-hairy; 2n=18. Wet or dry places, often in pinelands; N.J. to Fla. and La., mainly on the coastal plain.

• Common Names

  hairy piney-woods goldenrod