Biology:Solidago ptarmicoides
| Solidago ptarmicoides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Solidago |
| Section: | S. sect. Ptarmicoidei |
| Species: | S. ptarmicoides
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| Binomial name | |
| Solidago ptarmicoides (Torr. & A.Gray) B.Boivin
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Synonymy
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Solidago ptarmicoides, the prairie goldenrod, white flat-top goldenrod or upland white aster, is a North American perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.[4] It is native to the central and eastern Canada (from New Brunswick to Manitoba) and parts of the United States (mostly Great Lakes region, the Northeast, the Ozarks, and the northern Great Plains, with isolated populations in Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, and scattered locations in the Southeast.[1][5] It has also been called upland white solidago, upland white goldenrod, and sneezewort goldenrod[6]
Description
Solidago ptarmicoides is distinctive within the genus in having white to cream-colored flowers, in heads arranged in a flat-topped corymb rather than in an elongated raceme. One plant can sometimes produce as many as 50 small heads. Leaves are narrow and linear, often rather stiff. The species prefers dry, sandy soils and grassy meadows.[1]
Flowerheads
Narrow leaves
Mature plants
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Conservation status in the United States
The plant is listed as endangered in Connecticut,[7] Massachusetts , New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Tennessee , as rare in Indiana , and as presumed extirpated in Ohio.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006), "Solidago ptarmicoides", 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 ptarmicoides", Tropicos, Missouri Botanical Garden, http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?projectid=&name=Solidago+ptarmicoides
- ↑ "Solidago ptarmicoides". The Plant List. Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew). http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Solidago+ptarmicoides.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Oligoneuron album". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=OLAL2. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ↑ "Solidago ptarmicoides", County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) (Biota of North America Program (BONAP)), 2014, http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Solidago%20ptarmicoides.png
- ↑ Reznicek, A. A.; Voss, E. G.; Walters, B. S., eds (February 2011). "Solidago ptarmicoides". University of Michigan Herbarium. https://michiganflora.net/species.aspx?id=464.
- ↑ "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved 1 February 2018. (Note: This list is newer than the one used by plants.usda.gov and is more up-to-date.)
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