| Author | Torrey & A. Gray | |
| Distribution | Southern part of the Coastal Plain only, north to Scotland, Sampson, and Carteret counties. The record from Cumberland County (RAB) is based on a misidentified specimen.
Coastal Plain, NC to southern FL and southern AL. | |
| Abundance | Very rare to rare and local; declining in the state, with barely 4-5 extant sites, including one discovered in Brunswick County in late 2020 and another in Pender County in 2021. One specimen record noted that there were at least 25 plants present. This is a State Endangered species. | |
| Habitat | Moist soils of Clay-based Carolina bays (Robeson Co., Scotland Co.), moist pine savannas (Carteret Co.), depression in sand ridge (Columbus Co.), clearing by creek (Sampson Co.). Most of these habitats are very limited in acreage, and are easily impacted by improper water levels, drawdown of the water table, and destruction of such isolated wetlands. |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting August-October. | |
| Identification | Leavenworth's Goldenrod typically grows 2-3 feet tall with very leafy stems that have very short but rough-feeling hairs. Leaves are narrowly lance-shape to linear (broadest leaves are lowest on the stem); there is no basal rosette of leaves. The inflorescence is typically elongate, with short to longish, curved branches. Leaves usually have very short hairs in lines along veins. It looks quite like a "runt" Giant Goldenrod (S. gigantea), but that plant has a quite glabrous stem, and it usually grows over 4 feet tall; both are essentially wetland species. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | None
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| Other Common Name(s) | None | |
| State Rank | S1 | |
| Global Rank | G3G4 | |
| State Status | E | |
| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | FAC link |
| USACE-emp | FAC link |
