Plants 20–100 cm; caudices branched, woody. Stems 1–5+, erect, puberulent. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline tapering to long-petioles, blades oblanceolate to obovate, 50–150 × 10–50 mm, margins serrate, apices acute, faces puberulent; mid to distal cauline sessile, blades lanceolate to linear-elliptic, 10–50 × 3–10 mm, reduced distally, margins becoming entire, apices acute. Heads 15–250, not secund, in elongate, paniculiform arrays, lateral racemiform clusters short and ascending, sometimes lateral branches elongated and sharply ascending. Peduncles 1.5–3 mm. Involucres campanulate, 3–5 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, appressed, unequal, linear, attenuate, puberulent. Ray-florets 9–16 (orange-yellow); laminae 3.5–4.2 × 0.4–0.6 mm. Disc-florets (6–) 10–15; corollas 2.8–3 mm, lobes 0.5–0.8 mm. Cypselae 0.8–1.3 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose; pappi 2.2–2.6 mm.

Distribution

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N.B., N.S., Ont., Que., Ala., Conn., Del., Fla., Ga., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Md., Miss., N.C., N.H., N.J., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Va., Vt., W.Va.

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Solidago puberula subsp. puberula, Solidago puberula subsp. pulverulenta

Key

1	Leaves 20–50(–60), mid cauline usually 40–50 mm; phyllaries attenuate; Nova Scotia to Ontario, s to piedmont and mountains in Georgia	Solidago puberula subsp. puberula
1	Leaves (20–)50–110+, mid cauline 10–40 mm; phyllaries acute to barely attenuate; coastal plain, se Virginia to n Florida, w to e Louisiana	Solidago puberula subsp. pulverulenta

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