''Solidago delicatula'', commonly called smooth elm-leaf goldenrod, is a North American species of
flowering plants in the family
Asteraceae. It is native to the southern
Great Plains
The Great Plains (french: Grandes Plaines), sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, an ...
of the United States, in the states of
Texas,
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
,
Kansas,
Arkansas, and
Louisiana.
''Solidago delicatula'' is a perennial herb up to 120 cm (4 feet) tall with a woody underground
caudex
A caudex (plural: caudices) of a plant is a stem, but the term is also used to mean a rootstock and particularly a basal stem structure from which new growth arises.pages 456 and 695
In the strict sense of the term, meaning a stem, "caudex" is m ...
. One plant can produce as many as 480 small yellow flower heads in a large branched array at the top of the plant.
Flora of North America, ''Solidago delicatula'' Small, 1898. Smooth elm-leaf goldenrod
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References
curtisii
Flora of the Great Plains (North America)
Plants described in 1842
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