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Checklist » Asteraceae » Solidago lepida var. salebrosa

Solidago lepida DC. var. salebrosa (Piper) Semple [FNA20]
Asteraceae
Rocky Mountains Canada goldenrod

Origin: Native

Voucher:WTU (view specimen records)

Notes: FNA20: "FNA20: "Variety salebrosa strongly resembles Solidago canadensis, and is found throughout most of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and adjacent Canada. It has been included in S. canadensis by many authors (e.g., A. Cronquist 1994). In extreme forms the array is broader than tall with long, arching proximal branches. Hairier plants can be similar in appearance to S. altissima; the latter is usually not glandular and is much hairier. Glabrate plants of var. salebrosa can be difficult to distinguish from hexaploid S. gigantea near and in the mountains from Alberta south to New Mexico. Glabrate plants in the mountains often treated as S. gigantea are glandular and belong in S. lepida var. salebrosa. Small-headed diploids found in the Rocky Mountains from southern British Columbia to Colorado are usually sparsely glandular and could be confused with short-array forms of S. elongata."

Check WTU colls for specimens of S. altissima, reported N to BC by Semple (1993)

Literature:
(none)
Photo © Ben Legler
(from WTU Image Collection)

Taxon treatment authored by David Giblin; last updated 1/27/2010 by David Giblin
Synonyms
Solidago canadensis L. ssp. salebrosa (Piper) D.D. Keck
Solidago canadensis L. var. salebrosa (Piper) M.E. Jones
» Semple, J.C. J.G. Chmielewski, and R.A. Brammall. 1990. A multivariate morphometric study of Solidago nemoralis (Compositae: Astereae) and comparison with S. californica and S. sparsiflora. Canadian Journal of Botany 68: 2070-2082.
Solidago gigantea Aiton
[FNA20: "Reports of hexaploids in the mountains from Alberta, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and northwestern Wyoming all have minute stipitate glands on the phyllaries, peduncle bracts, and sometimes the distalmost leaves; such plants belong in S. lepida, as do plants from British Columbia. "]
Solidago gigantea Aiton ssp. serotina (Kuntze) McNeill
Solidago gigantea Aiton var. serotina (Kuntze) Cronquist
Solidago lepida DC. misapplied in Abrams




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