ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK
 
 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Solidago caesia
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ASTERALES
 FAMILY:   ASTERACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Solidago caesia
 AUTHORITY:  L.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    BLUESTEM GOLDENROD
    WOODLAND GOLDENROD
    WREATH GOLDENROD
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: SOCA4
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
     PRIMARY
       BLUFF
         CLIFF (ROCKY BLUFF)
         NON-ROCKY BLUFF
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     CENTRAL
        Upland oak
           White/Black/Northern Red-  Oak
     NORTHERN
       Northern Hardwoods
           Sugar Maple-Basswood
           Sugar Maple
           Beech - Sugar Maple
 
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:
     Coastal Plain
        Cretaceous Hills
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           ALEXANDER       CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       CLARK
   COLES           COOK            CRAWFORD        DOUGLAS         DUPAGE
   EDGAR           FULTON          GALLATIN        GREENE          HAMILTON
   IROQUOIS        JACKSON         JASPER          JERSEY          JOHNSON
   KANKAKEE        LAKE            LAWRENCE        MASON           MASSAC
   MONROE          PIKE            POPE            PULASKI         RANDOLPH
   SALINE          SANGAMON        UNION           VERMILION       WABASH
   WHITESIDE       WILL            WILLIAMSON
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)   (rhizomes)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Serrate
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Lanceolate   Ovate   Oblanceolate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Head
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Incomplete   Regular   Irregular
    FLOWER COLOR:   Yellow
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Epigynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Plant is easily recognized by glaucous stem with waxy bloom.
 
 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 are perfect, ray florets are pistillate, and both fertile.
     Rhizomes at least are short and stout, caudex-like; may also be
     long and creeping.
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in rich or rocky woods, bluff bases and
     ledges. In northern Illinois with Fraxinus americana. See also SAF
     Forest Cover Types.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 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.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Solidago caesia
 
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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