See below for sub-species and varieties.

Wrinkle-leaved Goldenrod       

 

State Status * CT MA RI VT NH ME
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Ecology: Fields, roadsides, woods, disturbed areas
Blooming Period: August to September
Typical Height Range: 3' to 5'   (9 to 15 dm)
The following sub-species and varieties occur in our region:

Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa
     Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. rugosa
     Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa var. sphagnophila

Solidago rugosa ssp. aspera
     Solidago rugosa var aspera

 

 What to look for in the field: 
  The capitulescence consists of numerous ascending or widely-spreading branches, which are sometimes quite long and recurved.  Branches are densely pubescent and leafy.  Branch leaves are conspicuous.  Heads are numerous and crowded in one-sided arrays on branches.
  Stems are stout and densely pubescent, often rough to the touch.

  Basal and lowest stem leaves are deciduous by flowering.  Mid- to upper stem leaves are elliptic to ovate, sharply toothed, and tapering to long, pointed tips.  Lower and mid-stem leaves have very short (almost inconspicuous) petioles.  Leaves sometimes have a wavy or wrinkled quality.  They have one prominent vein, and a network of smaller veins (i.e., not triple-veined).  Stem leaves diminish is size only gradually upwards.
  Colony-forming from rhizomes.

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* State status data obtained from the NatureServe website and from published state natural heritage data.  Click link for a list of state status codes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

11/16/2009