Intro: Erect to ascending, rhizomatous perennial of dry woodlands, woodland borders, road banks and dry pinelands.

Stems: Stems vaguely angled, mostly smooth.

Leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem, sessile, linear to lance-shaped (basal oblong-lance), 2 1/2-6 in. long, sparingly toothed and smooth; upper leaves smaller, spreading or reflexed and with clusters of reduced leaves in the axils.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) abundant along the nodding branches of a vaguely pyramidal terminal array, mostly on the upper side of each branch; heads about 1/4 in. wide, consisting of 3-8 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of 3-9 tiny, yellow tubular florets. 2-3 series of tiny green bracts surround the narrowly bell-shaped base of each head.

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Height: 2-3 ft.

plant sale text: Small's Goldenrod is a native to North and South Carolina and Virginia. It has special value to native bees as it blooms in the heat of the summer. One plant can produce as many as 350 small yellow flower heads in a showy branching array at the top of the plant. This plant is often found in piney woodland and on hillsides. The Solidago genus supports up to 112 lepidoptera species.

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description: Erect to ascending, rhizomatous perennial of dry woodlands, woodland borders, road banks and dry pinelands.

stems: Stems vaguely angled, mostly smooth.

leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem, sessile, linear to lance-shaped (basal oblong-lance), 2 1/2-6 in. long, sparingly toothed and smooth; upper leaves smaller, spreading or reflexed and with clusters of reduced leaves in the axils.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) abundant along the nodding branches of a vaguely pyramidal terminal array, mostly on the upper side of each branch; heads about 1/4 in. wide, consisting of 3-8 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of 3-9 tiny, yellow tubular florets. 2-3 series of tiny green bracts surround the narrowly bell-shaped base of each head.

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native range: NC, SC, VA