| Author | (Michaux) de Candolle | |
| Distribution | Coastal Plain, including the Sandhills region; however, absent from the northern Coastal Plain. Recorded north only to Nash, Martin, and northern Dare counties.
Coastal Plain, NC to northern FL and southeastern LA. | |
| Abundance | Common in the Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) zones in the Coastal Plain, but mostly uncommon to infrequent elsewhere. | |
| Habitat | Wet to moist Longleaf Pine--Wiregrass savannas and flatwoods, blackwater streamhead ecotones. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting August-October. | |
| Identification | Rayless-goldenrods have a unique aspect: a basal rosette of lance-shaped leaves, several small and slender stem leaves, and a flat-topped, yellow inflorescence of skinny heads, each with only a few disk florets and no rays. In var. nudata, the basal leaf blades show a distinct taper or narrowing to the leaf stalks, whereas those of var. australis (reported erroneously in NC) are skinny throughout and show a very gradual narrowing from tip to base of the stalks. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | In older texts treated as Chondrophora nudata.
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| Other Common Name(s) | Rayless Goldenrod | |
| State Rank | S4 | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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| USACE-agcp | FACW link |
| USACE-emp | FACW link |
