Solidago radulaNutt.

western rough goldenrod

WFO wfo-0000009971 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solidago radula, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. a Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-21 / obs. 164837860
Solidago radula, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. b Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97391734
Solidago radula, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. c Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81244117
Solidago radula, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. d Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9396875
Solidago radula, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. e Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157741678
Solidago radula, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. f Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152620732
Solidago radula, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. g Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82575465
Solidago radula, photographed by Laura Clark
fig. h Laura Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22621056

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Solidago radula is native: Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas ArkansasGeorgiaIllinoisKansasKentuckyLouisianaMissouriNorth CarolinaOklahomaSouth CarolinaTexas
Native distribution of Solidago radula, 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
Arkansas ARK NORTHERN AMERICA
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Missouri MSO
North Carolina NCA
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX

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 11 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 decemflora Nutt.
  • Aster decemflorus Kuntze
  • Solidago decemflora A.Gray
  • Solidago laeta Greene
  • Solidago pendula Small
  • Solidago radula var. laeta Fernald
  • Solidago radula var. radula
  • Solidago radula var. rotundifolia (DC.) A.Gray
  • Solidago radula var. stenolepis Fernald
  • Solidago rotundifolia DC.
  • Solidago scaberrima Torr. & A.Gray

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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