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Carolina goldenrod

Solidago pulchra

Also called Beautiful Goldenrod

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Coastal North Carolina
Climate
temperate

About

Solidago pulchra, the Carolina goldenrod, is a rare North American plant species in the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in the states of North Carolina and South Carolina in the southeastern United States.

Solidago pulchra is a hairless perennial herb up to 80 centimeters (30 inches) tall, with a branched woody rootstock. One plant can produce as many as 50 flowers in an elongated array. Ray flowers are yellow, 6-14 per head. Disk flowers number 12-30 per head. The species grows in moist, sandy depressions in pine woodlands.

Other Solidago plants

Whitehair goldenrod · High plains goldenrod · Canada goldenrod · Sand goldenrod · Argentine Goldenrod · Atlantic goldenrod · Eared goldenrod · Azorean Goldenrod · White goldenrod · Dixie goldenrod · Buckley's goldenrod · Wreath goldenrod

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Solidago pulchra by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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