Solidago radula Nutt.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants 4–12 dm from a caudex, at least sometimes with creeping rhizomes as well; stem scabrous to shortly and loosely hirsute; lvs chiefly cauline, numerous, firm, elliptic or lance-elliptic to rather narrowly elliptic-obovate, subsessile, obscurely to evidently toothed or the upper entire, ± evidently trinerved, subglabrous, or more commonly scabrous-hirsute (seldom more softly spreading-hairy), mostly 2–5 times as long as wide, the larger ones 3–8 × 1–3 cm; infl paniculiform, with densely fld, ± recurved-secund branches, or occasionally simple and nodding; invol glabrous, 3.5–5.5 mm, its bracts relatively broad and firm, acutish to more often obtuse or broadly rounded; rays 4–7, 2–3.5 mm; disk-fls 4–6; achenes short-hairy; 2n=18. Open, rocky places and dry woods, especially in calcareous soil; Mo. and s. Ill. and w. Ky. to Okla., La., and Tex.; N.C.; Ga.
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Common Names
rough goldenrod