Solidago mollis

Solidago mollis
	1913 illustration
Conservation status
	; Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Solidago
Species:	S. mollis
Binomial name
	Solidago mollis; Bartl. July 1836 not Rothr. October 1836
Synonyms
	Synonymy Doria incana Lunell ; Doria mollis (Bartl.) Lunell ; Solidago incana Torr. & A.Gray ; Solidago mollis var. angustata Shinners ; Solidago nemoralis var. incana (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray ; Solidago nemoralis var. mollis (Bartl.) A.Gray ;

Solidago mollis is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names velvety goldenrod,^[3] soft goldenrod^[4] or Ashly goldenrod.^[4] It is native to the central United States and central Canada, primarily the Great Plains from the Canadian Prairie Provinces south as far as Texas and New Mexico.^[5]

Solidago mollis is a perennial herb up to 70 cm (2.3 ft) tall with creeping rhizomes. Leaves are egg-shaped or lance shaped, up to 10 cm (4 in) long, covered with soft, fine hairs. One plant can produce as many as 300 small yellow flower heads in a branching array at the top of the plant.^[4]

Galls[edit]

This species is host to the following insect induced gall:

Asteromyia carbonifera (Osten Sacken, 1862)

external link to gallformers

References[edit]

^ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 3: 396.
^ "Solidago mollis". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Solidago mollis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006). "Solidago mollis". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 20. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
^ "Solidago mollis". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.

External links[edit]

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Solidago mollis in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley

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[1] USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 3: 396.

[2] "Solidago mollis". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online

[3] USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Solidago mollis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 19 November 2015.

[FNA-4] Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E. (2006). "Solidago mollis". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 20. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

[5] "Solidago mollis". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.

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