Minnesota Seasons - late goldenrod


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Solidago altissima

Taxonomy	Family:	Asteraceae (aster)
	Subfamily:	Asteroideae
	Supertribe:	Asterodae
	Tribe:	Astereae (aster)
	No Rank:	North American clade
Subordinate Taxa	shorthair goldenrod (Solidago altissima ssp. gilvocanescens) tall goldenrod (Solidago altissima ssp. altissima)

Identification	See the varieties for identifying information.

Range			Sources: 2, 3, 7.

Sightings	Avon Hills Forest SNA North Unit Blanket Flower Prairie SNA Cedar Mountain SNA Cottonwood River Prairie SNA Gneiss Outcrops SNA Kasota Prairie SNA Kellogg-Weaver Dunes SNA Kellogg-Weaver Unit Lost Valley Prairie SNA			Morton Outcrops SNA Myre-Big Island State Park Old Mill State Park Oronoco Prairie SNA Osmundson Prairie SNA Pine Bend Bluffs SNA River Terrace Prairie SNA Rock Ridge Prairie SNA Sakatah Lake State Park Townsend Woods SNA Wild Indigo Prairie SNA Zumbro Falls Woods SNA

Comments	Taxonomy Some sources, including NCBI and UniProt, classify this Solidago canadensis var. scabra. Other sources, including GRIN, ITIS, The Plant List, and most older sources, classify it as Solidago altissima. According to FNA, two factors argue for distinguishing this plant at the species level. First, young plants can appear grayish-green due to short hairs on the leaves, a character not seen in Solidago canadensis. Second, the goldenrod gall fly (Eurosta solidaginis) produces large galls on both supspecies of this plant but not on Solidago canadensis.

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Synonyms	Solidago altissima var. pluricephala Solidago altissima var. procera Solidago canadensis var. scabra Solidago hirsutissima Solidago lunellii

Common Names	Canada goldenrod late goldenrod