Solidago chapmanii

Chapman's Goldenrod

Solidago chapmanii A. Gray is native to sandy soils at the margins of open pine and oak woods mostly in Peninsula Florida.  The stems are short-hairy entirely or in lines or strips running down from upper stem leaf bases (Semple & Cook 2006 FNA).  The species is now placed along with S. odora in S. subg. Triactis sect. Odorae. The species is diploid 2n=18.

The species was treated as S. odora ssp. chapmanii (A. Gray) Semple in FNA (Semple & Cook 2006 FNA).  Plants can be similar to S. fistulosa or broader leaved S. odora.  In a multivariate study of S. subsect. Venosae (Semple, Bzovsky, & Tong 2016), S. chapmanii separated well from S. odora and more so from S. fistulosa now placed in S. sect. Venosae of S. subg. Pleiactila (Semple and Beck 2021).