Solidago argutaAiton

Atlantic goldenrod

WFO wfo-0000090162 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solidago arguta, photographed by John Baur
fig. a John Baur, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-06 / obs. 94046716
Solidago arguta, photographed by er-birds
fig. b er-birds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92421676
Solidago arguta, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. c Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163984876
Solidago arguta, photographed by Elizabeth Axley
fig. d Elizabeth Axley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152564629
Solidago arguta, photographed by ragbird
fig. e ragbird, CC0 1.0 / obs. 126736229
Solidago arguta, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. f Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122371961
Solidago arguta, photographed by John Baur
fig. g John Baur, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 96063040
Solidago arguta, photographed by John Baur
fig. h John Baur, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94967363

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Native range 29 botanical countries

Regions where Solidago arguta is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia AlabamaArkansasConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMississippiMissouriNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioOklahomaOntarioPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexasVermontVirginiaWest Virginia Delaware
Native distribution of Solidago arguta, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Ohio OHI
Oklahoma OKL
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Vermont VER
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 37 in flower of 46 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Solidago arguta observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 37 of 46 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 252 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -12.0 °C -5.8 °C 3.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.2 °C 27.2 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 920 mm 1,227 mm 1,653 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 191 mm 263 mm 357 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 252 research-grade observations of Solidago arguta that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Solidago arguta f. arguta
  • Solidago arguta subsp. arguta
  • Solidago arguta subsp. boottii (Hook.) G.H.Morton

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.