Solidago rupestris Raf.

  • 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 rupestris Raf.

  • Description

    Species Description - Stems 5–15 dm from long creeping rhizomes, glabrous below, slightly puberulent above the middle, more definitely so in the infl; lvs chiefly cauline, numerous, crowded, thin, triple-nerved, glabrous, or occasionally puberulent along the midrib and main veins beneath, remotely serrulate or subentire, sessile or subsessile, slender, tapering to both ends, mostly 5–12 × 0.6–1.2 cm; infl paniculiform, with recurved-secund branches; invol 2–3 mm, the invol bracts blunter and more oblong than in no. 40; rays 7–10(11), 1–2 mm; disk-fls 2–7; achenes short-hairy; 2n=18. Riverbanks from Pa., Md. and D.C. to Tenn., Ky., s. O., and s. Ind.

  • Common Names

    riverbank-goldenrod