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solidago gigantea Aiton(Kuntze) McNeill
smooth goldenrod (buffalo-bur; giant goldenrod; late goldenrod)
Asteraceae (Aster family)

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SUBTAXA PRESENT IN BC
Solidago giganteaSolidago gigantea var. shinnersii

Species Information

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General:
Perennial herb from a fibrous-rooted, creeping rhizome; stems erect, solitary, branched above, the branches recurved and1-sided, glabrous below, glaucous and fine-hairy in the inflorescence, 0.5-2.0 m tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves lacking or, like the lower stem leaves, reduced and soon deciduous; stem leaves lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 8-15 cm long, 1.3-3.5 cm wide, alternate, simple, sharply saw-toothed or entire, 3-nerved, glabrous.
Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, numerous in a dense pyramidal inflorescence; involucres 2-5 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate, often blunt, overlapping, glabrous; ray flowers 9-16, 2-2.5 mm long; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits:
Achenes short-hairy; pappus of numerous white hairlike bristles.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

USDA Species Characteristics

Flower Colour:
Yellow
Blooming Period:
Indeterminate
Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Brown
Present from Summer to Fall
Source:  The USDA

Habitat / Range

Moist meadows, streambanks and forest openings in the montane zone; rare in SC and SE BC, known only from Trail and Golden; E to PQ and S to GA, OR and MX.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Climate

The climate type for this species, as reported in the: "British Columbia plant species codes and selected attributes. Version 6 Database" (Meidinger et al. 2008), is not evaluated, unknown or variable.

Synonyms and Alternate Names

Solidago leiophallax Friesner
Solidago leiophallax Friesner
Solidago gigantea subsp. serotina (Kuntze) McNeill

Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Links

Flora North America treatment for Asteraceae
 Flora North America treatment for solidago gigantea
Genetic information (NCBI Taxonomy Database)
 International Plant Names Index
 Taxonomic Information from the World Flora Online
 Integrated Taxonomic Information System

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General References

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Family References
 General Botanical References for BC
Recommended citation: Author, Date. Page title. In Klinkenberg, Brian. (Editor) 2020. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia [eflora.bc.ca]. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. [Accessed: 2024-05-05 9:55:10 PM ]
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