ASHY GOLDENROD
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Solidago mollis Bartl.
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| Grant County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon) |
| Perennial |
| Height: 4-24 inches |
| Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: August, September,October |
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| Also Called: | | Soft goldenrod. | | Stems: | | Ascending to erect, grayish green, densely strigulose to puberulent. | | Leaves: | | Basal and proximal often withering early; petiole present; blades ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, 1.8 to 4 inches long, .4 to 1.6 inch wide, base gradually tapered, margins serrate, tip acute, surfaces scabrous to strigulose; middle and distal cauline blades ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, .4 to 2.4 inches long, .16 to .8 inch wide, sometimes greatly reduced distally. | | Inflorescences: | | Heads, radiate, 50-300 in pyramidal or club-shaped panicle-like arrays, tip seldom nodding. Peduncles .04 to .12 inch. Involucres campanulate, .12 to .24 inch. Phyllaries in 3-4 series, lanceolate to oblong, apex obtuse to acute. | | Flowers: | | Ray florets 6-10; ligule .04 to .08 inch. Disk florets 3-8; corolla .1 to .15 inch. | | Fruits: | | Achenes tan to brown, obconic to cylindric, .06 to .08 inch, strigulose; pappus of outer scales and 24-45 inner white barbellate bristles in 3 series, .08 to .12 inch. | | Habitat: | | Sandy to gravelly mixed-grass and shortgrass prairies. | | Distribution: | | West 2/3 of Kansas. | | Origin: | | Natve | | Comments: | | The shape of the inflorescence can be highly variable.
Solidago, whole or sound, alluding to its reputed medicinal value; mollis, soft or velvety. |
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