Solidago mollis

Solidago mollis
1913 illustration[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Solidago
Species: S. mollis
Binomial name
Solidago mollis
Bartl. July 1836 not Rothr. October 1836
Synonyms[2]

Solidago mollis is a North American species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names velvety goldenrod,[3] soft goldenrod[4] or Ashly goldenrod.[4] It is native to the central United States and central Canada, primarily the Great Plains from the Canadian Prairie Provinces south as far as Texas and New Mexico.[5]

Solidago mollis is a perennial herb up to 70 cm (2.3 ft) tall with creeping rhizomes. Leaves are egg-shaped or lance shaped, up to 10 cm (4 in) long, covered with soft, fine hairs. One plant can produce as many as 300 small yellow flower heads in a branching array at the top of the plant.[4]

References

  1. ↑ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 3: 396.
  2. ↑ "Solidago mollis". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List.
  3. ↑ "Solidago mollis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006). "Solidago mollis". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee. Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). 20. New York and Oxford – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  5. ↑ "Solidago mollis". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.


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