Solidago mollis

Solidago mollis
1913 illustration[1]

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Solidago
Species:
S. mollis
Binomial name
Solidago mollis
Bartl. July 1836 not Rothr. October 1836
Synonyms[2]
Synonymy
  • Doria incana Lunell
  • Doria mollis (Bartl.) Lunell
  • Solidago incana Torr. & A.Gray
  • Solidago mollis var. angustata Shinners
  • Solidago nemoralis var. incana (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray
  • Solidago nemoralis var. mollis (Bartl.) A.Gray
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Solidago mollis is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae 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]

Galls

This species is host to the following insect induced gall:

external link to gallformers

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. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
  3. ^ NRCS. "Solidago mollis". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006). "Solidago mollis". 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.
  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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