Solidago rugosa Mill.

• 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 rugosa Mill.

• Description

  Species Description - Stems 3–15(–25) dm from long creeping rhizomes, evidently spreading-hirsute (glabrous in var. sphagnophila); lvs chiefly cauline, numerous, crowded, slightly to very strongly rugose-veiny, not triple-nerved, glabrous or scabrous above, hirsute at least on the midrib and main veins beneath (except var. sphagnophila), lance-elliptic to lance-ovate or rhombic- elliptic, serrate, subsessile, not clasping, the larger ones 3.5–13 × 1.3–5 cm; infl paniculiform, with recurved-secund branches; invol 2.5–4(–5) mm, its bracts slender, not more than ca 0.6 mm wide; rays 6–11, small; disk-fls (3)4–8; achenes short-hairy; 2n=18, 36, 54. Various habitats; Nf. to Fla., w. to Mich., Mo., and Tex. (S. altissima, misapplied)

• Common Names

  wrinkle-leaved goldenrod