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phyllaries linear- ebtong, obtusish; ray-florets 11-15, little exceeding the 15-22 disk-florets ; 
achenes puberulent 
Alkaline meadows or bogs, Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; southeastern premn south to Death Valley, 
California, pote to Utah. Type ieeality: mountains of western Nevada. July—Sept. 
10. Solidago spathulata DC. Dune Goldenrod. Fig. 5499. 
Solidago Fame ers DC. Prod. 5: 339. 1836. 
Homopap + nee ethopets Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 332. 1840, 
Solid Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer, 2: 202. 
Aster candoliés Kuntze, i Gen. Pl. 1: 315, 1891. 
Stems stout, from a caudex woody rhizome, 2-6 dm. high, usually glabrous throughout, 
glutinous pearl) above. Basal. leaves hioatty obovate to spatulate-oblan ite he mos oy blunt 
or rounded, crenate- Maier ta apering t o the ee the cauline similar but uced, the eel 
most acute and subse ~ he sat ina simple Or ompound, sometimes racemi aie thyrs e628 c 
long; involucre ws igh, phyllaries 9 oblong, yald blunt; ray-florets 7-9, pelseety 
exceeding the 10-16 ‘disk- oreks Laisizn den agg pu 
Sandy coastal hills and dunes, Humid Transition eas ; Coo: i Coe ee Oregon, to Monterey, California. Type 
locality: Monterey, California, erroneously given as i" pod ng . * Collected dig Haenke. May—Oct 
Solidago spathulata subsp, glutinédsa (Nutt.) Keck, Aliso ie Jot 1958. {5 ofons contertifora DC. Prod. 
5: 339. 1836, not Nutt. 1834; S. glutinosa Nutt. Trans. “eg tga bie S. vespertina Piper 
in Piper & Beattie, Fl. Northw. Coast 365. 1915.) Stems 8 dm je or les sie ge eit ng glutinous and 
apuredy hispidulous within the capac hice basal leaves nacrowly phoriars to narrowly <a heads in a 
narrow thyrse 40 cm. long or less; phyllaries linear or oblong-linear, obtuse or the innermost acutish; ray-florets 
6-17; disk- florets 5-35. Coastal, British a to northwestern Or regon. Type locality: “On the plains of the 
Oregon and Wahlamet Rivers,’’ Oregon. June—-Oct 
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