Solidago stricta Aiton

• 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 stricta Aiton

• Description

  Species Description - Glabrous perennial 3–20 dm with a short, simple caudex and long stoloniform rhizomes; lvs basally disposed, thick and firm, the lowest ones oblanceolate or elliptic- oblanceolate, sometimes very narrowly so, 6–30 × 0.3–2(–5) cm, entire or obscurely serrate; cauline lvs abruptly reduced and sessile, entire, the middle and upper ones numerous, erect, often scarcely more than mere bracts; infl narrow, elongate, naked, sometimes nodding at the tip, the short branches occasionally recurved-secund; heads on slender, flexuous, minutely bracteolate peduncles; invol 4–6 mm; rays 3–7; disk-fls 8–12; achenes hairy, sometimes sparsely so; 2n=18, 36, 54. Sandy, usually moist places, especially among pines, or sometimes in coastal marshes, where it hybridizes with no. 15; coastal plain from N.J. to Fla., Tex., W.I., and s. Mex. (S. petiolata, misapplied)

• Common Names

  wand-goldenrod