Solidago curtisii

Solidago curtisii, commonly called Curtis' goldenrod^[2] and mountain decumbent goldenrod,^[3] is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is the eastern part of the United States from Pennsylvania to Mississippi and Alabama, primarily in the southern Appalachian Mountains.^[4]

Solidago curtisii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Solidago
Species:	S. curtisii
Binomial name
Solidago curtisii Torr. & A.Gray
Synonyms[1]
Solidago ambigua var. curtisii (Torr. & A.Gray) Alph.Wood Solidago caesia var. curtisii (Torr. & A.Gray) C.E.S.Taylor & R.John Taylor Solidago caesia var. hispida Alph.Wood Solidago asterifolia Small, syn of var. flaccidifolia Solidago flaccidifolia Small, syn of var. flaccidifolia

Solidago curtisii is a perennial herb sometimes as much as 100 cm (40 inches) tall, with a thick, woody underground caudex. Stem is narrow, wiry, and dark purple. One plant can produce up to 800 small yellow flower heads in small clumps in the axils of the leaves.^[2][5]

Galls

This species is host to the fillowing insect induced gall:

• Asteromyia carbonifera (Osten Sacken, 1862)

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Varieties^[1][6]

• Solidago curtisii var. curtisii - high elevations in mountains from Georgia to West Virginia
• Solidago curtisii var. flaccidifolia (Small) R.E.Cook & Semple - lower elevations from Mississippi to Pennsylvania