Solidago plumosa Small (1898:476)

Yadkin River goldenrod

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Globally Rediscovered (Semple & Nelson, 2018:4; Knapp et al., 2020; NatureServe, 2026)

Last record: 1894 (Cronquist, 1980)

Rediscovered in: 1994 by Alan Weakley and Steve Leonard (Semple & Nelson, 2018:4)

Was considered possibly extinct by (Cronquist, 1980). Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019).

Distribution & Habitat

Yadkin River, Stanley County, North Carolina, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Alcoa Power and Generating, Inc. (APGI). Yadkin River goldenrod survey, Final Study Report, September 2006.

Bates, M. (1998). Field Survey Report for Solidago plumosa at Morrow Mountain State Park. North Carolina Plant Conservation Program. Plant Conservation Program, NC Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Raleigh, NC.

Bates, M. (2004). Solidago plumosa Monitoring at Narrows (Badin) Dam. Unpublished data. NC Plant Conservation Program. NCDA&CS, Raleigh, NC.

CPC. (1992). Centre for plant conservation data for North American plants database. CPC, Centre for plant conservation.

Cronquist, A. (1980). Vascular Flora of the Southeastern United States. I. Asteraceae. Univ. North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.

Flora of North America Editorial Committee. (2006). Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 20. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 7: Asteraceae, part 2. New York: Oxford University Press. xxii + 666 pp.

Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]

Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Knapp, Wesley M., Frances, Anne, Noss, Reed, Naczi, Robert F. C., Weakley, Alan, Gann, George D., Baldwin, Bruce G., Miller, James, McIntyre, Patrick, Mishler, Brent D., Moore, Gerry, Olmstead, Richard G., Strong, Anna, Gluesenkamp, Daniel and Kennedy, Kathryn. (2020). Regional records improve data quality in determining plant extinction rates. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 512-514. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1146-1

NatureServe. (2026). Solidago plumosa: Yadkin River Goldenrod. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 19 August 2026]

POWO. (2026). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 19 August 2026]

Radford, A. E., Ahles, H. E. and Bell, C. R. (1968). Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. Univ. North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC. 1183 pp.

Roskov Y. et al. (eds.). (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Semple, John C. and Nelson, J. B. (2018). Solidago austrocaroliniana (Asteraceae: Astereae), a new species of subsect. Humiles from South Carolina. Phytoneuron 75: 1-6.

Small, J. K. (1933). Manual of the southeastern flora. Two volumes. Hafner Publishing Company, New York.

SASVP (Southern Appalachian Species Viability Project). (2002). A partnership between the U.S. Forest Service-Region 8, Natural Heritage Programs in the Southeast, NatureServe, and independent scientists to develop and review data on 1300+ regionally and locally rare species in the Southern Appalachian and Alabama region. Database (Access 97) provided to the U.S. Forest Service by NatureServe, Durham, North Carolina.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2004). Species assessment and listing priority assignment form. Solidago plumosa. 11 pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2009). Species Assessment and Listing Priority Assignment Form: Solidago plumosa. North Carolina Field Office, Asheville. 14 pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2013). Review of Native Species That are Candidates for Listing as Endangered or Threatened; Annual Notice of Findings on Resubmitted Petitions; Annual Description of Progress on Listing Actions. Federal Register 78(226): 70104-70162.

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.

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