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|accepted_name=Solidago spithamaea
|accepted_authority=M. A. Curtis ex A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|place=42: 42. 1842
|year=1842
}}
|common_names=Skunk or Blue Ridge goldenrod
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster spithamaeus
|authority=(M. A. Curtis ex A. Gray) Kuntze
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Solidago;Solidago sect. Solidago;Solidago subsect. Multiradiatae;Solidago spithamaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Solidago]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Solidago sect. Solidago]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subsection</small>[[Solidago subsect. Multiradiatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Solidago spithamaea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 110, 112
|treatment_page=page 111
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>10–40 cm (with somewhat noxious odor); rhizomes short, stout, or branched caudices. <b>Stems</b> 1–10+, erect (usually simple), rough-puberulent or shortly spreading hirsute, or proximally glabrate. <b>Leaves</b>: basal petioles 1.5–7 mm, blades spatulate to lanceolate or subrhombic, mostly 50–109 × 15–40 mm, bases tapering, glabrous, margins sharply serrate, ciliate, apices acuminate; mid and distal sessile, blades lanceolate to subrhombic, much reduced distally, margins serrulate becoming entire distally, glabrous. <b>Heads</b> 15–50+ in compactly rounded corymbiform arrays, becoming paniculiform in robust plants. <b>Peduncles</b> 1–7, short-strigose; bracts leaflike, 5–15 mm. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 5–6 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> (in 3–4 series) lanceolate, unequal (midnerves swollen), acute to acuminate (tips dark green). <b>Ray</b> florets 8–10(–15); laminae 2–3.5 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 20–60; corollas 3.5–4.5 mm, lobes 1.5–2 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 2–3 mm, sparsely strigose to glabrate; pappi (of 12–22 bristles) about 3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 54.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Rock crevices of exposed outcrops
|elevation=1600–2000 m
|distribution=N.C.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Solidago spithamaea</i> is listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The species is extant at only three locations; all other known populations were extirpated. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Solidago spithamaea
|authority=M. A. Curtis ex A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=subsection
|synonyms=Aster spithamaeus
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Rock crevices of exposed outcrops
|elevation=1600–2000 m
|distribution=N.C.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication year=1842
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Solidago
|section=Solidago sect. Solidago
|subsection=Solidago subsect. Multiradiatae
|species=Solidago spithamaea
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