Solidago elliottii Torr. & A.Gray
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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 stout, (4–)10–30(–40) dm from long creeping rhizomes, wholly glabrous, or puberulent in the infl; lvs chiefly cauline, numerous, sessile or nearly so (the base of the blade often subauriculately rounded to a very short petiole), elliptic or lance-elliptic, ± serrate or the upper entire, not triple-nerved, not rugose, the larger ones 6–15 × 1.5–3.5 cm; infl paniculiform, sometimes conspicuously leafy-bracteate, with short or elongate, slightly to strongly recurved-secund branches; invol 4–6 mm, its bracts obtuse or rounded, the larger ones 0.7–1.2 mm wide; rays 6–10(–12); disk-fls 4–7; achenes short-hairy; 2n=18, 54. Fresh or brackish swamps near the coast; N.S.; Mass. to Fla.
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Common Names
coastal swamp-goldenrod