Biology:Solidago mollis
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
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| 1913 illustration[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Solidago |
| Species: | S. mollis
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| Binomial name | |
| Solidago mollis Bartl. July 1836 not Rothr. October 1836
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Synonymy
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Solidago mollis is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names velvety goldenrod,[3] soft goldenrod[4] or Ashly goldenrod.[4] It is native to the central United States and central Canada, primarily the Great Plains from the Canadian Prairie Provinces south as far as Texas and New Mexico.[5]
Solidago mollis is a perennial herb up to 70 cm (2.3 ft) tall with creeping rhizomes. Leaves are egg-shaped or lance shaped, up to 10 cm (4 in) long, covered with soft, fine hairs. One plant can produce as many as 300 small yellow flower heads in a branching array at the top of the plant.[4]
Galls
This species is host to the following insect induced gall:
- Asteromyia carbonifera (Osten Sacken, 1862)
References
- ↑ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 3: 396.
- ↑ "Solidago mollis". The Plant List. Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew). http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Solidago+mollis.
- ↑ "Solidago mollis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SOMO. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006), "Solidago mollis", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA), 20, New York and Oxford, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=
- ↑ "Solidago mollis", County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) (Biota of North America Program (BONAP)), 2014, http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Solidago%20mollis.png
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q15568309 entry
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