Solidago_uliginosa

<i>Solidago uliginosa</i>

Solidago uliginosa

Species of flowering plant

Solidago uliginosa, or bog goldenrod,[2] is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is found in eastern Canada (from Nunavut to Newfoundland and Manitoba) and the eastern United States (Great Lakes, Northeast, and Appalachian Mountains as far south as northeastern Georgia. There are historical reports of the species growing in Alabama, but these populations appear now to have been extirpated).[3][4]

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Solidago uliginosa is a perennial herb up to 200 cm (80 inches or 6 2/3 feet) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. One plant can produce as many as 230 small yellow flower heads in a narrow, elongate array. The species grows in bogs, marshes, and swamps.[5]

Galls

This species is host to the following insect induced galls:

external link to gallformers

References

  1. [1]
    "Solidago uliginosa". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
  2. [2]
    USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Solidago uliginosa". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  3. [3]
    Biota of North America Program 2014 state-level distribution map
  4. [4]
    "Solidago uliginosa". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
  5. [5]
    Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006). "Solidago uliginosa". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 20. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.


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