Solidago shortii Torr. & A.Gray

  • 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 shortii Torr. & A.Gray

  • Description

    Species Description - Stems 6–13 dm from a short, stout rhizome, scabrous-puberulent at least above the middle; lvs chiefly cauline, numerous, firm, glabrous, triple- nerved, remotely serrulate, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate or sharply acute, tapering to the subsessile or obscurely petiolate base, the larger ones 7–10 × 1–1.5 cm; infl paniculiform, with recurved- secund branches; invol 4–5 mm, its bracts firm, acute or obtusish; rays 5–8, 2–3 mm; disk-fls 5–9; achenes short-hairy; 2n=36. Dry, open places at Blue Licks, in Fleming, Nicholas and Robertson counties, Ky., and formerly on Rock Island, at the falls of the Ohio, near Louisville.

  • Common Names

    Kentucky-goldenrod