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Wild Florida Photo - Solidago sempervirens - Seaside Goldenrod

Solidago sempervirens L. subsp. mexicana (L.) Semple

Seaside Goldenrod
Southern Seaside Goldenrod

Synonym(s): Solidago mexicana L.

Florida native

Flagler Co. FL 10/18/03
Flagler Co. FL 10/18/03
Volusia Co. FL 11/16/11
Volusia Co. FL 11/16/11
Volusia Co. FL 11/16/11
Volusia Co. FL 11/16/11
 
 

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Solidago sempervirens is one of the 20 species of goldenrod found in Florida. The habitat of seaside goldenrod includes beach dunes, wet pinelands and the edges of salt marshes and flats. Found in nearly all of the coastal Florida counties and rarely inland in several parts of the peninsula.
A perennial herbaceous plant growing up to 2m (6-1/2 ft.) tall, glabrous with a typically slender form. The somewhat fleshy, elongated basal leaves persist through flowering. The stem leaves are sessile, nearly clasping, reduced upward and typically ascending with entire margins. The elongated inflorescenes are terminal and ascending with many small yellow flowers with 8-17 straplike rays and 10-22 florets in he disk. The fruit is a pubescent achene.
Recent studies (including Semple et al. 2016) have placed the Florida plants in Solidago mexicana and consider S. sempervirens limited to the mid-Atlantic states northward.


Solidago sempervirens 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 odora var. chapmanii - CHAPMAN'S GOLDENROD
  Solidago stricta - WAND GOLDENROD


Date record last modified: Nov 13, 2024


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