Biology:Solidago delicatula
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Solidago delicatula | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Solidago |
| Species: | S. delicatula
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| Binomial name | |
| Solidago delicatula | |
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Solidago delicatula, commonly called smooth elm-leaf goldenrod, is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southern Great Plains of the United States, in the states of Texas , Oklahoma, Kansas , Arkansas, and Louisiana.[2]
Solidago delicatula is a perennial herb up to 120 cm (4 feet) tall with a woody underground caudex. One plant can produce as many as 480 small yellow flower heads in a large branched array at the top of the plant.[3]
This species is host to the fillowing insect induced gall:
- Asteromyia carbonifera (Osten Sacken, 1862)
References
Wikidata ☰ Q15567437 entry
