Solidago lancifolia

Lance-leaf Goldenrod

Solidago lancifolia (Torr. & A. Gray) Chapman occurs in woods and in shaded to full sun along road embankments at higher elevations in the Appalachians in North Carolina and Tennessee.  A few atypical plants of Solidago lancifolia with multi-nerved phyllaries grow along the border of Virginia and West Virginia.  Stems are 60-160 cm tall and the phyllaries are usually multi-veined () and stipitate glandular (Levy and Donaldson 2018).  The species is a decaploid (2n=90).

Solidago lancifolia range Cook & Semple draft

Levy, F. and J.T. Donaldson. 2018. Morphology, geographic distribution, and conservation status of the southern Appalachian endemic, Solidago lancifolia (Asteraceae). J. Torrey Botanical Society 145(4): 281-295.

Last revised 10 April 2025 by J.C. Semple     

© 2025 J.C. Semple, including all photographs unless otherwise indicated

Solidago lancifolia, North Carolina
Solidago lancifolia tall shoots Grandfather Mt. NC
Solidago lancifolia, inflorescence, North Carolina
Solidago lancifolia, heads, North Carolina
Solidago lancifolia S 11130 cult À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ glandular phylls
Solidago lancifolia, phyllaries (herbarium sheet), North Carolina

1-4. Solidago lancifolia. 1. Large clone of shoots, Semple 11121, Avery Co., North Carolina. 2-3. Tall shoots and inflorescence, Grandfather Mt., North Carolina. 4. Heads, Semple 11130, Watanga Co., North Carolina. 5. Glandular phyllaries, S 11130 cult À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. 6. Dried striate phyllaries, Steele 124 GH, Avery Co., North Carolina.