Index / Search / Solidago sempervirens
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Solidago
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 229 counties across 20 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 3.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 700,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 229 counties across 20 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafourche 22057
- Orleans 22071
- Plaquemines 22075
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Winn 22127
Maine view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 11 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Austin 48015
- Brazoria 48039
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Colorado 48089
- Fort Bend 48157
- Galveston 48167
- Gonzales 48177
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Jackson 48239
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Kenedy 48261
- Kleberg 48273
- Liberty 48291
- Matagorda 48321
- Newton 48351
- Tyler 48457
- Victoria 48469
- Wilson 48493
Virginia view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Essex 51057
- Gloucester 51073
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Prince George 51149
- Richmond 51159
- Stafford 51179
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SOSE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5388927 ↗Record version
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