15 cm ruler for scale
Tufted growth habit, infloresence a narrow, cylindrical panicle. Stems erect to decumbent, often reddish. Flowers measured at 6 mm long and 9 mm diameter. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, reduced upwards, the basal leaves with rounded teeth, basal leaf highlighted in above photo was 11.5 cm long (including petiole) and 14 mm wide. Stems and leaves puberelent.
This plant might be mistaken for Solidago missouriensis, another low growing Goldenrod. However, that plant's stems are glabrous, and its infloresence is not as narrow / more spreading.
Common to grasslands and open woods in southern Saskatchewan.
Height listed in Budd's Flora to 50 cm, we measured plants to 49 cm tall.
Took the above photos August 12th, meadow in aspen woods, about 250 km east our home in Regina, SK.
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