Solidago latissimifolia

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Perennial. Colony-forming from creeping rhizomes. Stems are glabrous toward the base, but become short pubescent closer to the branches. Typical height is 3 to 6 ft. (9 to 18 dm).

The overall inflorescence is ± compact, confined to the summit of the stem, often "pyramidal" in shape. Branches are relatively short, crowded, spreading, and sometimes recurved.

Flower heads are radiate, arranged one-sided on branches. Ray and disc floret corollas are yellow. All florets are fertile.

Basal and lowermost stem leaves are usually withered by flowering. Stem leaves are ovate-elliptic, glabrous, minutely toothed or entire, lacking petioles or borne on very short petioles.

Plants of fresh or salt-water swamps or damp thickets; distributed mostly in the coastal plain surrounding Long Island Sound or on Cape Cod. Flowers early September to early October. Native

Similar species: Solidago rugosa var. sphagnophilla