Solidago stricta

Solidago stricta
Photo taken by Gil Nelson
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class:	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae
Genus:	Solidago
Species:	S. stricta
Binomial name
Solidago stricta Aiton
Natural range of Solidago stricta from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: wand goldenrod

Description

A description of Solidago stricta is provided in The Flora of North America.

Ecology

Habitat

In the Coastal Plain in Florida and Georgia, S. stricta can be found in open woodlands, pine flatwoods, pine-palmetto flatwoods, ditches, lagoon edges, banks of brackish marshes, high pinelands, longleaf pine-turkey oak ridges, salt flats bordering mangrove swamps, recently burned longleaf pine-wiregrass savannas, seepage bogs, banks of ephemeral ponds, tidal marshes, sandhills, and coastal dunes (FSU Herbarium). It can also be found in lawns, clobbered slash pines, recently planted slash pine plantations, roadsides, vacant lots, powerline corridors, and logged over hillside bogs. It tends to be more common in mesic and wet areas than dry areas (Walker and Peet 1983). Substrates include loamy sand, peaty sand, alluvial sands, limerock, sand, and sandy peat (FSU Herbarium).

Associated species include Vigna luteola, Liatris, Pityopsis, Aristida stricta, Pinus palustris, Andropogon, Solidago sempervirens, Senecio and Euthamia (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

Flowering and fruiting has been observed February through December (FSU Herbarium).

Seed dispersal

According to Kay Kirkman, a plant ecologist, this species disperses by wind.

References and notes

Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: July 2015. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Cecil R Slaughter, Ann F. Johnson, Roomie Wilson, Robert L. Lazor, William P. Adams, R.K. Godfrey, William Reese, Paul Redfearn, John Morrill, R. Kral, M. Darst, Angus Gholson, F. C. Creager, D. B. Creager, Delzie Demaree, C. T. Reed, O. Lakela, J. B. Nelson, Sidney McDaniel, John Morrill, J. D. Lazor, V. I. Sullivan, A. H. Curtiss, A. F. Clewell, George R. Cooley, H. E. Grelen, Richard Carter, K. Craddock Burks, K. Studenroth, C. Florko, J. D. Lazor, Mark A Garland, Gary Knight, H. S. Conard, Rodie White, R. A. Norris, R. Komarek, Thomas E. Miller. States and Counties: Florida: Alachua, Bay, Broward, Calhoun, Charlotte, Dade, Dixie, Duval, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hillsborough, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Monroe, Nassau, Okaloosa, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Taylor, Volusia, Wakulla. Georgia: Grady, Thomas. Compiled by Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.

Walker, J. and R. K. Peet. 1983. Composition and species diversity of pine-wiregrass savannas of the Green Swamp, North Carolina. Vegetatio 55:163-179.