Euthamia gymnospermoides Greene

• 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

  Euthamia gymnospermoides Greene

• Description

  Species Description - Glabrous except for the slightly scabrous lf-margins, 4–10 dm; lvs densely and strongly glandular punctate, obscurely to sometimes evidently 3-nerved, without any additional lateral nerves, linear, 4–10 cm × 1.5–4(–6) mm; heads sessile in small glomerules or somewhat pedunculate, mostly 14–20-fld, the short rays 10–14, the disk-fls 4–6; invol (4.5–)5–6.5 mm, narrow, ± strongly glutinous, its bracts obtuse or the inner acute; 2n=36. Open, often sandy, moist to rather dry places; s. Minn. and w. Ill. to Mo., Colo., and Tex. (Solidago g.)

• Common Names

  Great Plains flat-topped goldenrod