Solidago buckleyi

Buckley's Goldenrod

Solidago buckleyi Torr. & A. Gray is native to woods in southern Missouri and adjacent Arkansas, southern Illinois, extreme southwestern Indiana, northwestern Kentucky, and northcentral Alabama.  The species is similar to S. petiolaris but has larger lower and mid stem leaves with large teeth (). Semple & Gandhi (2012) neotypified the species and presented a map of its distribution, noting reports from Georgia were based on specimens of S. porteri.  Semple and Keener (2016) documented the presence of S. buckleyi in Alabama supported by a multivariate analysis comparing S. buckleyi,ÌýS. petiolarisÌý±¹²¹°ù.ÌýpetiolarisÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýS. porteri.  Semple et al. (2017) included S. buckleyi in a multivariate study of all taxa in S. ²õ³Ü²ú²õ±ð³¦³Ù.ÌýThyrsiflorae and found the species to be statistically distinct. 

Solidago buckleyi range draft JCS

Semple, J.C. and K. Gandhi.  2012.  Neotypification of Solidago buckleyi (Asteraceae: Astereae) and observations on its distribution.  Phytoneuron 2012-111: 1-5.

Semple, J.C. and B.R. Keener.  2016.  A recent collection of Solidago buckleyi in Alabama (Asteraceae: Astereae) and multivariate comparison of S. buckleyi,ÌýS. petiolarisÌý±¹²¹°ù.ÌýpetiolarisÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýS. porteri.  Phytoneuron 2016-15: 1–8.

Semple, J.C., Y. Ma, U. Naik, N. Steenhof, and L. Tong. 2017. A multivariate morphometric analysis of Solidago subsect. Thyrsiflorae (Asteraceae: Astereae). Phytoneuron 2017-77: 1–37.


Last revised 9 April 2025 by J.C. Semple     

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1-4. Solidago buckleyi. 1. Large plant, Morton 3233  NY, Searcy Co., Arkansas. 2. Noyes 852 MO, Ripley Co., Missouri.  3. Head, D'Arcy 3831 MO, Madison Co., Missouri. 4. Diisc floret fruits, Eggleston 5397 NY, McCracken Co., Kentucky.Â