Solidago odoraAiton

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WFO wfo-0000024522 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solidago odora, photographed by mark-groeneveld
fig. a mark-groeneveld, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-18 / obs. 169860131
Solidago odora, photographed by John Ambler
fig. b John Ambler, CC0 1.0 / obs. 164953328
Solidago odora, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. c Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161585101
Solidago odora, photographed by Matt Pelikan
fig. d Matt Pelikan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147809832
Solidago odora, photographed by Matt Pelikan
fig. e Matt Pelikan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145907207
Solidago odora, photographed by Chase Mathey
fig. f Chase Mathey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142516521
Solidago odora, photographed by Daniel Atha
fig. g Daniel Atha, CC0 1.0 / obs. 126221725
Solidago odora, photographed by John Baur
fig. h John Baur, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 96039085

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Solidago odora is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia AlabamaArkansasConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaKentuckyLouisianaMarylandMassachusettsMississippiMissouriNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioOklahomaPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexasVermontVirginiaWest Virginia DelawareRhode I.
Native distribution of Solidago odora, 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
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Ohio OHI
Oklahoma OKL
Pennsylvania PEN
Rhode I. RHO
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 430 in flower of 557 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Solidago odora 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. 430 of 557 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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.

Also published as 8 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.

  • Aster commutatus Kuntze
  • Aster odorus (Aiton) Kuntze
  • Solidago chapmanii A.Gray
  • Solidago chapmanii A.Gray
  • Solidago odora f. odora
  • Solidago odora var. chapmanii (A.Gray) Cronquist
  • Solidago odora var. inodora A.Gray
  • Solidago suaveolens Schöpf

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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