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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Euthamia gymnospermoides
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ASTERALES
 FAMILY:   ASTERACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Euthamia gymnospermoides
 AUTHORITY:  Greene
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    GRASSLEAF GOLDENROD
 
 SYNONOMY:
     Solidago gymnospermoides (Greene) Fern.
     Solidago graminifolia (L.) Salisb. var. gymnospermoides (Greene) Croat
 
 PLANTS CODE: EUGY
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
       FLOODPLAIN FOREST
         MESIC
     PRAIRIE
       TYPICAL PRAIRIE
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
       SAND PRAIRIE
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
     PRIMARY
       GLADE
     CULTURAL
       AGRICULTURAL FIELD
       SUCCESSIONAL FIELD
       DEVELOPED LAND
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           BOND            CASS            COOK            CRAWFORD
   DUPAGE          GRUNDY          HANCOCK         HENDERSON       KANE
   KANKAKEE        KENDALL         LASALLE         LEE             MCDONOUGH
   MCHENRY         MASON           MONTGOMERY      OGLE            PIKE
   ST. CLAIR       WILL            WILL            WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)   (rhizomes)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear   Oblong
    INFLORESCENCE:   Corymb  Head
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Regular   Irregular
    FLOWER COLOR:   Yellow
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Epigynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Leaves mostly 1-nerved, usually resinous and conspicuously glandular punctate.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      8         MONTH END-     10
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     SEX:      Perfect     Unisexual   -monoecious
 
 BIOLOGIC COMMENTS:
     Disk florets perfect, ray florets pistillate and both fertile.  Branched,
     creeping rhizomes.
     Disk florets perfect, ray florets pistillate and both fertile.  Branched,
     creeping rhizomes.
     creeping rhizomes.
     Disk florets perfect, ray florets pistillate, both fertile.  Rhizomes branched,
     creeping.
     Disk florets perfect, ray florets pistillate and both fertile.  Branched,
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     River bottom meadows, wooded draws, roadsides, and along railroads.
     Upland or rocky prairies, river bottom meadows, wooded draws, along
     roadsides and railroads.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     GROWTH OF SPECIES IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS:  No data entered
 
     HABITAT:   Moist   Dry
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     ALLERGENIC:  Maybe
 
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:
     WEEDINESS:   Non-weedy
 
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Gleason, H. A.  1952.  The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the
     northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.  3 vols.  The New York
     Botanical Garden, New York.
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1986.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Revised and enlarged edition.  Southern Illinois University Press,
     Carbondale.  507 pp.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Euthamia gymnospermoides
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015