292 COMPOSITAE 
1. Solidago occidentalis (Nutt.) Torr. & a Western Goldenrod. Fig. 5490. 
Euthamia occidentalis Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 326. 1840 
Solidago occidentalis Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 226. 1842 
Euthamia linearifolia Gandoger, ape best Bot. Fr. 65: 41. 1918. 
Euthamia age ey Gandoger, loc 
tout, from creeping eri che much branched, 6-20 dm. high, glabrous throughout, 
often withinons a s lance-linear ssile, , 3-5-n 4-10 long, 3- 
wide, the margin often scabrid, glandular-punctate; inflorescence ample, leafy-bracteate, inter- 
rupted-elongate or rounded, eads in 1 cymose clusters; in re 4 i 1- 
es firm, lance- ae to lance-linear, acute; ray-florets 15-25, 1 .5-2.5 mm. long ; disk-florets 
14; achenes pilos 
Mo ist ground at oa altitudes, Bere ates Shot and Transition Zones; British Columbia - ee eee 
east to Alberta, N Linton and Texas. Type locality: ‘‘Banks of the Ore egon and Wahlamet, and L 
in the Rocky Mountains.” July—Nov 
Solidago ae emer’ F var, major (Michx.) Fernald, Rhodora 46: 330. 1944. (Solidago ec ga ig var. 
jrssagath Michx. FI. ty a 2: 116. 1803.) Leave s lance-li near, seven to eleven times as long as wide, oo 
t rgins scabrous-hirtellous; inflorescence compact, flat-topped, the heads mostly sessile in Bixters of 2-5 a 
tins a ‘the branchlets; ae 4-5 mm. high, the So mostly broader, blunter, and often oe obvigusly 
green-tipped aac Ba S. eaaret. Rare in our (Aberdeen, Washington) ; British Colum o New 
foundland, Vir re, ars hocality: "Take St. John, Quebec. Typical J. pe see care in 
the aeceer dt Ba United cae J cinth 
2. Solidago californica Nutt. California Goldenrod, Fig. 5491. 
Solidago californica Nutt. Trans. Sloe Phil. Soc. II. 7: 328. 1840. 
Solidago californica var. nevadensts A. Gray, age Cali. 1: 319. 1876. 
t i icus Kunt 
tems fr eep omes, dm 
Basal and lower cauline leaves spatulate to obov ate or “igen obtuse to acute, seeniate to base, 
rena Sit ded =. ee 1-3.5 cm. wide sually m r 
narrowly oblong, g, sharply acute to sien puberulent or glabrous ; ray-florets 8-13; disk- axe 
4-11; jpn ees Tispidu 
Coun m dry or moist fields, clearings, and forest openings, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; 
western Orca awash the Coast Ranges and the western flank of the Sierra Nevada to San Diego County, mont 
fornia; also Inyo County. Type locality: Santa Barbara. July—Oct 
3. Solidago canadénsis L. subsp. elongata (Nutt.) Keck. Meadow Goldenrod. 
Fig. 5492. 
Solidago elongata Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 327. 1840. 
Aster elongatus Kuntze, Rev. G Pi-¥e Hse 1891 
id uri ipe 
Pp 
Solidago lepida var. siones Fer ora 17: 9. 
—— lepida var. caurina M. E ‘k, Man. Pl. Oren 7. 1941 
Solidago canadensis a a Mao ey Aliso 4: 10 
es from creeping rhizomes, 3-10(15) dm. gh, puberulent or pilosulose up toward (and 
always including) the inflorescence or pened tan densely leafy. Leaves nearly uniform, lan ceolate 
, 12 om: ae 1-2 cm. wi aperi and apex n 
or oblong-lanceolate, de, t ng to b , triplinerved, “shart 
serrate tire, contig mat ined, from essentially glabrous to one rid-puberulent on 
faces; panicle 5- = é dene. usually rhombic — broad or he the Mower branches not 
obviously recurved n ee “heads secund; involucre 3.5-5 m . hig Ss llaries Hae, linear- 
ace ray- se aera oats A 13, little phassesne ha the diole paneee hispidulou 
Meadows and moist openings in woods, from sea-level to 7,500 feet. Transition Zone; southern : itish Colum 
bia to snare coastal California and in the Sierra Nevada to Tulare County, east to the Reged Mountains; also 
Lower California. Type locality: ‘‘Wappatoo Island and the plains of the Oregon.”” July—Oct, ‘A variable species 
with rather rly marked regional subspecies and covering most of the United States and Canada o New 
foundland. Typical canadensts is northeastern. 
ng ay canadensis subsp. salebrésa (Piper) mers Aliso 4: 104. 1958. Sener serotina var. salebrosa 
Piper in Piper & Beattie, Fl. Paisase ag 485. 1901; S. Nekeastns var. salebros. ones, Bull. Univ. Mont. 
Lan Ser. hey 1910; S. salebrosa Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mts. 870. 1917; s. ceantie var. salebrosa Friesn. Butler 
4: 196. 1940.) Similar to subsp. elongata, differing in having large broad panicles, with ob- 
viously te rec mere ine gRSOR tae lower branches bearing secund heads. Much ‘lens common in the Pacific States than 
the preceding; eastern Orepon and Washington to the Rocky Mountains. Type locality: Pullman, Whitman 
County, Washington. 
4. So tua lépida DC. Alaskan Goldenrod. Fig. 5493. 
Solidago lepida DC. Prod. 5: 339. eulge 
Solidago lepida var. cmhieone DC. loc 
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pies a tze , Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: Hay 
Solidag Var. vokactuahe Cronquist, Ven Pl. Pacif. Northw. 5: 305. 1955. 
Stems mostly 9s dm. high. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, usually sharply serrate-dentate and 
scarcely reduced up to the inflorescence ; panicle short and compact, not at all secund; involucre 
not very im since a ces ob cae aries more than half as long as the inner. Otherwise similar 
to S. canadensis s ubsp. elon 
Moe ground, Humid Teanaton Zone; Saddle Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon; Vancouver Island north 
to southern Alaska. Type loc : Nootka or Multgrave (Yakutat Bay). July—Sept. 
