Click on any image to open the slideshow
Solidago odora var. chapmanii
Chapman's Goldenrod
Synonym(s): Solidago chapmanii
Florida native
A common plant of sandhills and dry open hammocks throughout most of the peninsula and a few central panhandle counties. Also occurs in Georgia.
Growing to 137 cm (4-1/2 ft.) tall, with many heads of yellow florets borne along one side of the branches. Leaves alternate, entire, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, dark green on both surfaces, fairly evenly pubescent, although sometimes with a glabrous or sub-glabrous strip below the leaf base. Stem below the inflorescence distinctly pubescent.
Solidago odora is a member of the Asteraceae - Aster family.
Other species of the Solidago genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:
Solidago fistulosa - PINEBARREN GOLDENROD
Solidago sempervirens var. mexicana - SEASIDE GOLDENROD
Solidago stricta - WAND GOLDENROD
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified: Jul 28, 2022
