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Name

Identification
Oligoneuron album (Nuttall) G. L. Nesom [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Aster ptarmicoides (Nees) Torrey & A. Gray [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by A. Gray, 1881
Related name
  • Aster ptarmicoides
  • Oligoneuron album
Common name
  • Upland white aster, Flora of North America Vol. 20
  • verge d’or faux-ptarmica, Flora of North America Vol. 20
  • white flat-top goldenrod, Flora of North America Vol. 20

Flora

Entry for Solidago ptarmicoides (Torrey & A. Gray) B. Boivin [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 20,
Names
Solidago ptarmicoides (Torrey & A. Gray) B. Boivin [family COMPOSITAE], Phytologia, 23: 21. 1972
Aster ptarmicoides Torrey & A. Gray [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. N. Amer., 2: 160. 1842
Diplopappus albus (Nuttall) Lindley ex Hooker [family COMPOSITAE]
Diplopappus ptarmicoides (Nees) Lindley [family COMPOSITAE]
Doellingeria ptarmicoides Nees [family ]
Eucephalus albus (Nuttall) Nuttall [family ]
Heleastrum album (Nuttall) de Candolle [family ]
Inula alba Nuttall [family COMPOSITAE]
Oligoneuron album (Nuttall) G. L. Nesom [family COMPOSITAE]
Solidago asteroides Semple [family COMPOSITAE]
Solidago bernardii B. Boivin [family COMPOSITAE]
Unamia alba (Nuttall) Rydberg [family COMPOSITAE]
Unamia ptarmicoides (Nees) Greene [family COMPOSITAE]
Treatment Author(s)
John C. Semple
Rachel E. Cook
Information
Plants 10–40 cm; caudices branching; vascular bundles and petiole bases marcescent (attached to old stems for more than a season). Stems 1–20+, erect, slender, glabrous proximally, hispid distally. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline persistent, subpetiolate to sessile, blades sometimes 3-nerved, linear to linear-lanceolate, 60–100 × 7–10 mm, stiff, flat, margins entire or subentire, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy; mid to distal cauline sessile, blades linear oblanceolate to linear, 20–40 × 3–5 mm, reduced distally, margins entire. Heads 1–25(–50), in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles 29–36.5 mm, strigillose; bracteoles linear. Involucres 5–6 mm. Phyllaries in 4–5 series, usually prominently 1-nerved, linear, strongly unequal, outer acute, inner acute to obtuse, glabrous. Ray florets 10–20, usually white, rarely pale yellow (conspicuous); laminae 7–7.3 × 1.4–1.6 mm. Disc florets 30–36; corollas 3.8–4.1 mm, lobes 0.5–0.7 mm. Cypselae (obconic) 1–1.5 mm (ribbed), glabrous; pappi 3.4–4 mm (apically clavate). 2n = 18.
Phenology
jul-aug (summer), sep-oct (fall)
Altitude range
0–1500 m;
Distribution
USA Colo.USA Conn.USA Ill.USA Ind.USA IowaUSA Mich.USA Minn.USA Mo.USA Mont.USA N.H.USA N.Y.USA OhioUSA Okla.USA S.C.USA S.Dak.USA Vt.USA Wis.USA Wyo.Canada Man.Canada Ont.Canada Que.Canada Sask.
Discussion
L. Brouillet and J. C. Semple (1981) summarized the morphologic, chemical, cytological, and hybridization data on Solidago ptarmicoides and concluded that, except for the white rays, it is a typical member of sect. Ptarmicoidei. The species hybridizes with S. rigida, S. ohioensis, S. riddellii, and perhaps other goldenrods. It is not known to hybridize with any species of aster (regardless of genus); the supposed Aster × Solidago hybrids are the basis of all reports of intergeneric hybrids in the literature. Horticultural hybrids involving S. ptarmicoides and other Solidago species have been treated as S. ×luteus (M. L. Green ex Dress) Brouillet & Semple (×Solidaster luteus M. L. Green ex Dress). Solidago ×bernardii B. Boivin [Oligoneuron ×bernardii (B. Boivin) G. L. Nesom] is the formal name applied to S. ptarmicoides × S. riddellii hybrids; those have cream rays. Solidago ×lutescens (Lindley ex de Candolle) B. Boivin [Diplopappus lutescens Lindley ex de Candolle; D. albus var. lutescens (Lindley ex de Candolle) Hooker ex Torrey & A. Gray; Aster lutescens (Lindley ex de Candolle) Hooker ex Torrey & A. Gray; A. ptarmicoides var. lutescens (Lindley ex de Candolle) A. Gray; Oligoneuron ×lutescens (Lindley ex de Candolle) G. L. Nesom] applies to hybrids between S. ptarmicoides and S. rigida or S. riddellii from the prairies; these also have cream colored rays.

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