TALL GOLDENROD
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Solidago altissima L.
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| [=Solidago canadensis L. var. scabra (Muhl. ex Willd.) T. & G.] |
| Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Chase County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 20-80 inches |
| Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: August, September,October |
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| Stems: | | Erect, usually uniformly short hairy, sometimes glabrescent proximally. | | Leaves: | | Basal and lower cauline usually withering early; petiole absent or nearly so; blade oblanceolate, 4 to 6 inches long, 3/5 to 4/5 inch wide, firm, base tapered, margins entire to serrate, distinctly 3-nerved, tip acute to acuminate, lower surface strigose, upper surface scabrous, hairs prominently thickened basally; middle and upper cauline leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate, 1 to 6 inches long, 1/5 to 1 inch wide, much reduced above. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicle-like array of heads, pyramidal or sometimes conic, tip sometimes nodding. Peduncles 1/25 to 1/8 inch. Involucres narrowly bell-shaped, 1/12 to 1/8 inch. Phyllaries lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, tips obtuse to acute. | | Flowers: | | Ray florets 10-17, yellow, ligule 1/10 to 1/6 inch. Disk florets 3-9, yellow, tubular, 1/10 to 1/8 inch. | | Fruits: | | Achenes tan to brown, obconic to cylindric, .04 to .08 inch, minutely strigose; pappus of outer scales and inner white bristles, 1/10 to 1/8 inch. | | Habitat: | | Tallgrass, mixed-grass, and shortgrass prairies, ravines, flood plains, pastures, old fields, disturbed sites. | | Distribution: | | Statewide | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Though very similar to Solidago canadensis, S. altissima has relatively larger heads and gray-green herbage compared to the smaller heads and darker green herbage of S. canadensis. Solidago, whole or sound, alluding to its reputed medicinal value, and altissima, very tall. |
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| Tall goldenrod |  | | 205 KB | | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Chase County, Kansas |
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| | Tall goldenrod stem |  | | 163 KB | | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Chase County, Kansas |
| | Tall goldenrod leaves |  | | 147 KB | | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Chase County, Kansas |
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