Solidago uliginosaNutt.

bog goldenrod

WFO wfo-0000083704 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Solidago uliginosa, photographed by Howard Williams
fig. a Howard Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-08-29 / obs. 154368692
Solidago uliginosa, photographed by naturalist charlie
fig. b naturalist charlie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150467026
Solidago uliginosa, photographed by Howard Williams
fig. c Howard Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 95738771
Solidago uliginosa, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. d Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86437653
Solidago uliginosa, photographed by Reuven Martin
fig. e Reuven Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 47798770
Solidago uliginosa, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. f Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49731445
Solidago uliginosa, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. g Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49695238
Solidago uliginosa, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. h Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26257558

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Solidago uliginosa is native: KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Labrador, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Québec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin KwaZulu-NatalLesothoAlabamaConnecticutGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaLabradorMaineManitobaMarylandMichiganMinnesotaNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew YorkNewfoundlandNorth CarolinaNova ScotiaOntarioPennsylvaniaPrince Edward I.QuébecSouth CarolinaTennesseeVermontVirginiaWest VirginiaWisconsin Delaware
Native distribution of Solidago uliginosa, 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
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Labrador LAB
Maine MAI
Manitoba MAN
Maryland MRY
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New York NWY
Newfoundland NFL
North Carolina NCA
Nova Scotia NSC
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
Prince Edward I. PEI
Québec QUE
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Vermont VER
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA
Wisconsin WIS
KwaZulu-Natal NAT AFRICA
Lesotho LES

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 230 in flower of 288 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Solidago uliginosa 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. 230 of 288 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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.

Also published as 38 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 terrae-novae Kuntze
  • Aster uliginosus J.M.Wood & M.S.Evans
  • Aster uliginosus Kuntze
  • Aster uniligulatus (DC.) Kuntze
  • Bigelowia uniligulata DC.
  • Chrysoma uniligulata (DC.) Nutt.
  • Felicia uliginosa (J.M.Wood & M.S.Evans) Grau
  • Solidago chrysolepis Fernald
  • Solidago farwellii Fernald
  • Solidago farwellii Fernald
  • Solidago humilis Banks ex Pursh
  • Solidago humilis var. abbei B.Boivin
  • Solidago humilis var. humilis
  • Solidago humilis var. microcephala Porter
  • Solidago humilis var. peracuta Fernald
  • Solidago humilis var. reducta Farw.
  • Solidago klughii Fernald
  • Solidago linoides Torr. & A.Gray
  • Solidago neglecta Torr. & A.Gray
  • Solidago neglecta var. linoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray
  • Solidago neglecta var. neglecta
  • Solidago neglecta var. simulata Farw.
  • Solidago neglecta var. uniligulata (DC.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
  • Solidago purshii Porter

and 14 more.

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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