Minnesota Seasons - stiff goldenrod


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Solidago rigida

Taxonomy	Family:	Asteraceae (aster)
	Subfamily:	Asteroideae
	Supertribe:	Asterodae
	Tribe:	Astereae (aster)
	No Rank:	North American clade
Subordinate Taxa	stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida ssp. humilis) stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida ssp. rigida)

Identification	See the varieties for identifying information.

Range			Sources: 2, 3, 5, 7.

Sightings	Afton State Park Agassiz Dunes SNA Big Stone NWR Blanket Flower Prairie SNA Blue Mounds State Park Bonanza Prairie SNA Chippewa Prairie Clinton Prairie SNA Cottonwood River Prairie SNA Elm Creek Park Reserve Glacial Lakes State Park Grey Cloud Dunes SNA Joseph A. Tauer Prairie SNA Kasota Prairie SNA Lake Bronson State Park Lake Elmo Park Reserve Louisville Swamp			Mound Spring Prairie SNA Myre-Big Island State Park Old Mill State Park Ordway Prairie Oronoco Prairie SNA Osmundson Prairie SNA Pankratz Memorial Prairie North Unit Ottertail Prairie SNA Regal Meadow River Terrace Prairie SNA Roscoe Prairie SNA Shooting Star Prairie SNA Staffanson Prairie Strandness Prairie Wahpeton Prairie WMA Western Prairie SNA Wild Indigo Prairie SNA Yellow Bank Hills SNA Zimmerman Prairie

Comments	Taxonomy According to some sources, “Along with a few other goldenrod species, such as Riddell's Goldenrod and Ohio Goldenrod, Stiff Goldenrod has been recently reassigned from the Solidago genus to the Oligoneuron genus” (Illinois Wildflowers). GRIN lists this plant as Oligoneuron rigidum. Most other sources, including UniProt, NCBI, ITIS, The Plant List, and Global Compositae Checklist, list Oligoneuron rigidum as a synonym of Solidago rigida.

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Synonyms	Oligoneuron rigidum

Common Names	hard-leaved goldenrod prairie goldenrod rigid goldenrod rigid-leaved goldenrod stiff goldenrod stiff-leaf goldenrod stiff-leaved goldenrod