COMPOSITE FAMILY 



COMPOSITE COMPOSITE FAMILY 



Solidago rugosa, Mill. 



Yellow Wrinkle-leaved Goldenrod, 



Tall Hairy Goldenrod, 



August-September Pyramid Goldenrod, 



Butterweed, 

 Dyer's-weed. 



Solidago: for derivation see altissima. 

 Rugosa: Latin for full of wrinkles. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: in or about low ground. 



THE PLANT: erect, one foot to five feet high; the stem 

 simple, or branched at the summit, usually stout, with 

 short, coarse hairs. 



THE LEAVES: numerous; alternate; dark green; oval or 

 oblong-lanceolate; one inch to four inches long; rather 

 thin; covered with few or many short, soft, hairs or with 

 rather dry ones; acute or acuminate at the apex (rarely 

 obtusish); narrowed at the base; stemless or sometimes 

 tapering into panicles; sharply serrate; on the lower sur- 

 face heavily veined and wrinkled. 



THE FLOWER HEADS: very small, on one side of, spreading 

 or recurving, often leafy, branches of the usually large and 

 compound panicle; the bracts of the involucre linear, ob- 

 tuse or obtusish. 



THE FRUIT: achenes; pappus of bristles. 



This is one of the tall and probably most variable of 

 the Nantucket Goldenrods. Mr. Bicknell says he found 

 "a low, villous form with small and narrow almost leafless 

 panicles and numerous crowded leaves, smooth or nearly 

 so on the upper surface." But the type form has large, 

 thin, very veiny, sharply saw-toothed leaves and long, 

 more or less soft hairs on the stem. 



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