| Author | Bicknell | |
| Distribution | Mainly Sandhills; disjunct to Henderson County in the southern Mountains. Other reports and specimens are based on misidentifications. This is a recent split elevating S. rugosa var. sphagnophila to full species status.
Mostly Coastal Plain, N.S. to SC. | |
| Abundance | Very poorly known by botanists and other biologists, as this is a recent split off of the large complex named as S. rugosa. Rare to uncommon in the Sandhills, and very rare in the southern Mountains. It is considered as a Watch List species. | |
| Habitat | Wet peaty (sphagnum moss) ecotones of blackwater streamheads (within Longleaf Pine-Wiregrass ecosystem), montane seepage bog (Henderson Co.). | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting August-October. | |
| Identification | Peat-loving Goldenrod is tall (4-6 feet) and leafy, the whole plant glabrous or glabrate. Plants grow from long horizontal rhizomes. It closely resembles S. latissimifolia, but differs in having scattered (sparse to moderately numerous), appressed, straight, white hairs on the leaf undersides that diverge 90 degrees from the midvein and side-veins. Also, the middle involucral bracts are definitely pointed (vs. blunt or rounded in S. latissimifolia). Weakley (2018) also states that this species has mid-stem leaves widest below the middle (i.e., lanceolate or ovate), as opposed to widest in the middle (elliptical) in S. latissimifolia. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | A synonym is S. rugosa var. sphagnophila. For more details on this species, see Sorrie (2018).
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| Other Common Name(s) | None | |
| State Rank | S1? [S2?] * | |
| Global Rank | G5T3T5 [G3G5] | |
| State Status | W7 | |
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