Solidago curtisiiTorr. & A.Gray

mountain decumbent goldenrod

WFO wfo-0000018250 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solidago curtisii, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. a Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-30 / obs. 170901020
Solidago curtisii, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. b Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166657631
Solidago curtisii, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. c Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165855821
Solidago curtisii, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. d Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164723807
Solidago curtisii, photographed by Judy Gallagher
fig. e Judy Gallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11731216
Solidago curtisii, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. f Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170900318
Solidago curtisii, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. g Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166994579
Solidago curtisii, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. h Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166656030

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Solidago curtisii is native: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia AlabamaGeorgiaKentuckyMississippiNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTennesseeVirginiaWest Virginia
Native distribution of Solidago curtisii, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Georgia GEO
Kentucky KTY
Mississippi MSI
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
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.

Also published as 4 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 ambigua var. curtisii (Torr. & A.Gray) Alph.Wood
  • Solidago asterifolia Small
  • Solidago caesia var. curtisii (Torr. & A.Gray) C.E.S.Taylor & R.John Taylor
  • Solidago caesia var. hispida Alph.Wood

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.

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