Solidago confinis

Southern goldenrod

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Southern goldenrod is a California native perennial found in the Tehachapi, Central Coast, San Francisco Bay, South Coast Ranges, southwestern California, White and Inyo Mountains, and Desert Mountains in wet streambanks, springs, and marshes at elevations generally below 2,500 meters. Flowering from April to October, this plant produces golden-yellow flowers in small heads 2.5 to 4 millimeters long arranged in club-shaped panicles with 3 to 13 ray flowers. Growing with stout stems up to 2.1 meters tall emerging from a short, branched caudex, it appears nearly smooth or glabrous. Its lower leaves are largest, 5 to 25 centimeters long, somewhat fleshy, with bases nearly sheathing the stem, and becoming smaller and scale-like toward the stem tip. The fruit is small, 1 to 1.5 millimeters long, and slightly strigose.

Habitat: Wet streambanks, springs, marshes

Bloom period: Apr-Oct

Elevation: generally < 2500 m

Bioregions: Teh, CCo, SnFrB (extirpated), SCoR, SW, W&ampI, DMtns.

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.