NameThatPlant.net: Hudsonia montana

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Malvales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hudsonia montana FAMILY Cistaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Mountain Golden-heather at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hudsonia montana FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Hudsonia montana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Hudsonia montana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Variation and speciation in the genus Hudsonia (Skog & Nickerson, 1972)

Hudsonia ericoides ssp. montana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-01-002:

Hudsonia montana FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Hudsonia montana

COMMON NAME:
Mountain Golden-heather

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image of Hudsonia montana, Mountain Golden-heather

Keith Bradley kab_hudsonia_montana_0041

June Burke County NC

Pisgah National Forest

Lowgrowing subshrub w needle-like evergreen leaves & solitary yellow flowers, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hudsonia montana FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hudsonia montana FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hudsonia montana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Hudsonia montana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Variation and speciation in the genus Hudsonia (Skog & Nickerson, 1972)
Hudsonia ericoides ssp. montana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-01-002:
Hudsonia montana FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hudsonia montana

2843

Shrub; Subshrub
Perennial

Habitat: Shallow sandy soils on ledges of quartzite or other felsic rocks in the Blue Ridge Escarpment, at various sites along the eastern side of Linville Gorge, Burke County, NC, and disjunct farther south in McDowell County, NC (Singecat Ridge), per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple - needle-like
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
5 persistent sepals
5 petals
Numerous stamens
Superior ovary

Flowers solitary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

"The following chronological synopsis of flora accounts of Microstegium is instructive: not treated by Small (1933), 'local' (Fernald 1950), 'rarely introduced and possibly not established' (Gleason & Cronquist 1952), 'sporadically naturalized' (Godfrey & Wooten 1979), 'a rapidly spreading pernicious invader on moist ground, too common' (Wofford 1989)... This species has become a very serious pest, now ranking as one of the most destructive introduced plants in our area, forming extensive and dense patches, sprawling over and eliminating nearly all other herbaceous plants. Eradication is very difficult, and considering its obvious colonizing abilities, only temporary." — Alan S. Weakley in Flora of the Southeastern US (2023)

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