Solidago altiplanities

C. E. S. Taylor & R. J. Taylor

Sida 10: 178, figs 2, 3. 1983.

Common names: High-plains goldenrod
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 154. Mentioned on page 110, 150.

Plants 30–100 cm; caudices woody, rhizomes elongate, branching, woody, forming new centers of growth. Stems 1–20, erect, finely scabroso-puberulent, sparsely so with age proximally, densely so distally. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline withering by flowering, subsessile, gradually tapering to short-winged petiolelike bases; mid and distal cauline sessile, blades linear-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 40–90 × 4–5 mm, 3-nerved from base, midnerves prominent, margins entire, finely scabrous, apices attenuate-acute, faces finely, sparsely to moderately strigose, more so on main nerves, finer nerves translucent, faces sometimes shiny. Heads 25–350, in short-to-elongate, secund paniculiform arrays, branches ascending or ascending and distally recurved, sometimes second, sometimes elongate. Peduncles 2–6 mm, finely strigose; bracteoles 1–10, often crowded, linear-lanceolate, 2–3 mm, grading into phyllaries. Involucres narrowly campanulate, 3.5–4 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, linear-lanceolate, strongly unequal, margins hyaline, distally subulate-ciliate, apices acute, glabrous. Ray-florets 4–5; laminae 1.5–2.5 × 0.5 mm. Disc-florets 6–8, 3–3.5 mm, lobes 0.5 mm. Cypselae (narrowly obconic) 1.5–2.5 mm, sparsely strigillose; pappi 3 mm. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering Sep–Oct.
Habitat: Mixed gypsum and shale soils, rocky slopes, escarpments, and ridges in high plains
Elevation: 400–1200 m

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Solidago altiplanities"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
acute;attenuate-acute +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
paniculiform +  and secund +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
cone--shaped +
short-to-elongate +
John C. Semple +  and Rachel E. Cook +
C. E. S. Taylor & R. J. Taylor +
not persisting +
decurrent +
Triplinerviae +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
linear-elliptic;linear-lanceolate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
rugulose +  and muricate +
linear-lanceolate +
secund +, leafy +  and thyrsiform-paniculiform +
recurved;ascending;ascending +
elongate +
High-plains goldenrod +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
yellow +  and white +
ampliate +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
compressed +, narrowly obconic +  and cylindric +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Okla. +  and Tex. +
400–1200 m +
resinous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Mixed gypsum and shale soils, rocky slopes, escarpments, and ridges in high plains +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
campanulate +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
1.5mm;2.5mm +
sessile +  and subsessile +
cauline +, mid +, proximal +  and basal +
gradually tapering;short-winged petiolelike +
erect;spreading +
triangular +  and narrowly lanceolate +
linear-lanceolate +  and oblong or ovate +
unequal +  and rarely subequal +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
not persisting +
Flowering Sep–Oct. +
stipitate-glandular +
linear-lanceolate +
ovate-oblanceolate +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
strigillose +  and glabrous +
8 +  and 10 +
exalbuminous +
scabroso-puberulent +
1 +  and 20 +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Altissimae +, Solidago subg. Brachyactis +, Solidago (sect. Undefined) ser. Paniculatae +, Serotinae +, Solidago subg. Triactis +  and Solidago (sect. Undefined) ser. Trinerves +
Solidago altiplanities +
Solidago subsect. Triplinerviae +
species +
not persisting +
100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br /> (200 cm2,000 mm <br />2 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +