Solidago velutina

Family: Asteraceae
Common Name: threenerve goldenrod
Symbol: SOVE6
Description: Perennials; 15-80 cm; rhizomes creeping, slender. Stems ascending to erect, glabrate proximally, sparsely to densely strigoso-puberulent distally. Basal and proximal cauline leaves gradually tapering to winged petioles, blades linear oblanceolate to oblanceolate, margins entire to sharply serrate, faces glabrate; mid and distal cauline sessile or subsessille, blades elliptic to oblanceolate, mid tapering to bases, 3-nerved, margins entire or sometimes distally serrate, apices acute, faces sparsely to densely strigoso-puberulent, sometimes softly so.