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Solidago dahuricaÌý(Kitag.) Juz. is the central and eastern Asian goldenrod with fruits that are sparsely hairy only on the upper half of the fruit body.Ìý The basal leaves usually have large serrations ().Ìý Its range extends from eastern Uzbekistan and southern central Russia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and south to northern China.Ìý It also occurs in the Himalaya Mts. in Pakistan, India and Nepal.Ìý

The species has been treated asÌýS. virgaurea. ssp.ÌýdahuricaÌý(Kitag.) Kitag.ÌýÌýSolidago virgaureaÌýhas fruits that are very sparsely to densely hairy over the entire fruit body, while S. dahurica has very few to many hairs on the upper portion of the fruit body.

Solidago dahurica has been reported to be diploid (2n=18) at scattered locations across its range in Russia.

In the multivariate analysis of S. ser. Solidago by Semple et al. (2020) 19 of 25 specimens of theÌýS. dahuricaÌýa priori group (76%) were assigned a posteriori to theÌýS.ÌýdahuricaÌýgroup, 5 specimens were assigned a posteriori toÌýS. pacificaÌýand 1 specimen with more hairy fruits from Xinjiang Prov., China toÌýS. virgaurea.

An excellent image isÌýÌýby Marina Roshkanyuk.

Chen, Yelin and John C. Semple. 2011. Solidago Linnaeus. pp. 632-634. In Wu, Z. Y., Raven, P. H. & Hong, D. Y., eds., Flora of China Volume 20–21 (Asteraceae). Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

Semple, J.C., Y. Ma, L. Tong, and M. Sorour.Ìý 2020. A multivariate morphometric analysis of Solidago sect. Solidago and S. sect. Multiradiatae (Asteraceae: Astereae). Phytoneuron 2020-38: 1–59.

Last revised 17 May 2025 by J.C. Semple

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