Solidago mollis

Solidago mollis
	1913 illustration
Conservation status
	; Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Solidago
Species:	S. mollis
Binomial name
	Solidago mollis; Bartl. July 1836 not Rothr. October 1836
Synonyms
	Synonymy Doria incana Lunell ; Doria mollis (Bartl.) Lunell ; Solidago incana Torr. & A.Gray ; Solidago mollis var. angustata Shinners ; Solidago nemoralis var. incana (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray ; Solidago nemoralis var. mollis (Bartl.) A.Gray ;

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)

external link to gallformers

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 Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
^ NRCS. "Solidago mollis". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 19 November 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006). "Solidago mollis". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 20. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
^ "Solidago mollis". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.

External links

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Solidago mollis in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley

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[1] USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 3: 396.

[2] "Solidago mollis". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online

[3] NRCS. "Solidago mollis". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 19 November 2015.

[FNA-4] Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006). "Solidago mollis". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 20. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

[5] "Solidago mollis". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.

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