Solidago fistulosa

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Solidago fistulosa
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae
Genus: Solidago
Species: S. fistulosa
Binomial name
Solidago fistulosa
Mill.
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Natural range of Solidago fistulosa from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: pine barren goldenrod

Taxonomic notes

Description

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

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

In the Coastal Plain in Florida and Georgia, S. fistulosa has occurred in wet hammocks, cabbage palm-slash pine hammocks, slash pine woodlands, lake margins, open ditches bordering swamps, shores of cypress ponds, thickets bordering cypress-gum depressions, floodplain woodlands, a Cladium brackish marsh, dried out cypress depressions, and marshy areas. It also has been found in disturbed areas such as roadside depressions, black sandy peat of a logged over hillside bog, clear-cut sand pine scrub ridge, old pastures, and a drainage ditch bordering pine flatwoods (FSU Herbarium). Soils include loamy sand, sandy loam, sandy peat, and clay (FSU Herbarium). Associated species include Euthamia minor, Eupatorium, Xyris, Rhynchospora fascicularis and Hypericum cistifolium (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

Flowers in September through October and fruits in October (FSU Herbarium).

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

S. fistulosa has been observed growing in a recently burned pineland bay forest and an annually burned pine forest (FSU Herbarium).

Pollination

The following Hymenoptera families and species were observed visiting flowers of Solidago fistulosa at Archbold Biological Station (Deyrup 2015):

Apidae: Apis mellifera

Colletidae: Colletes mandibularis, C. thysanellae

Halictidae: Augochlorella gratiosa, Halictus poeyi, Sphecodes heraclei

Megachilidae: Coelioxys sayi

Sphecidae: Anacrabro ocellatus, Tachytes validus

Vespidae: Eumenes smithii, Parancistrocerus salcularis rufulus, Polistes dorsalis hunteri, Zethus spinipes

Use by animals

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

Deyrup, M.A. and N.D. 2015. Database of observations of Hymenoptera visitations to flowers of plants on Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA.

Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: November 2015. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Robt. Blaisdell, A.F. Clewell, Mark A. Garland, Robert K. Godfrey, G.G. Hedgcock, Lisa Keppner, Gary Knight, R. Komarek, Robert Kral, Robert L. Lazor, R.A. Norris, James D. Ray Jr., Paul L. Redfearn Jr., Annie Schmidt, J.C. Semple, R. Wunderlin. States and Counties: Florida: Baker, Bay, Duval, Franklin, Gulf, Highlands, Hillsborough, Jefferson, Lake, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Okaloosa, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Taylor, Volusia, Wakulla, Walton, Washington. Georgia: Grady, Thomas. Compiled by Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.