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|accepted_name=Solidago arguta
|accepted_authority=Aiton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hort. Kew.
|place=3: 213. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|common_names=Cut-leaf or sharp-leaved or Atlantic goldenrod
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster argutus
|authority=(Aiton) Kuntze
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Solidago;Solidago sect. Solidago;Solidago subsect. Argutae;Solidago (sect. Solidago) ser. Argutae;Solidago arguta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Solidago]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Solidago sect. Solidago]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subsection</small>[[Solidago subsect. Argutae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>series</small>[[Solidago (sect. Solidago) ser. Argutae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Solidago arguta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 130, 132, 133
|treatment_page=page 131
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>50–120 cm; caudices branching. <b>Stems</b> 1 usually, erect, round, proximally glabrous, strigose in arrays. <b>Leaves</b>: basal and proximal cauline tapering abruptly to winged, thin petioles, blades broadly ovate, 100–300 × 30–100 mm, margins sharply serrate, apices acute to acuminate, adaxial faces glabrous or slightly scabrous, or sometimes strigose or strigillose; mid to distal cauline sessile, lanceolate, 50–72 × 10–14 mm, reduced distally, becoming entire. <b>Heads</b> 25–250, secund, in open, leafy, paniculiform arrays with recurved branches (sometimes elongate), branches and peduncles hairy. <b>Peduncles</b> 1.5–3 mm, glabrous or moderately short hispido-strigose, bracteoles 1–5, lanceolate-oblong, often grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> 2.5–4.5(–5) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, unequal; outer ovate, acute, inner linear-oblong, ciliate, obtuse. <b>Ray</b> florets 2–8; laminae 4–4.5 × 0.4–0.6 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 8–20; corollas 3.5–4 mm, lobes 0.6–1.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 1.5–2 mm, distinctly ridged, glabrous or strigose distally; pappi 3–3.5 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Solidago arguta</i> is reputedly in Ohio but its presence there is unconfirmed. The species includes a number of regional and ecotypal races investigated by G. H. Morton (1973, 1975). A. Cronquist (1980) is followed here.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=morton1973a
|text=Morton, G. H. 1973. The Taxonomy of the Solidago arguta–boottii Complex. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Tennessee.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Cypselae glabrous; s Maine to Virginia, w to Kentucky, Tennessee, and s Missouri
|[[29a.Solidago arguta var. arguta|29a.Solidago arguta var. arguta]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Cypselae strigillose (at least distally); Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, south
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves relatively firm, the basal usually proximally ± truncate; (shale barrens) e Kentucky, w Maryland, w Pennsylvnia, w Virginia, e WestVirginia
|[[29a.Solidago arguta var. harrisii|29a.Solidago arguta var. harrisii]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves less firm, the basal tapering; Virginia to n Florida, w to Kentucky, occasional in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves glabrous; Virginia to n Florida, w to West Virginia, Kentucky and occasionally to s Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana
|[[29b.Solidago arguta var. caroliniana|29b.Solidago arguta var. caroliniana]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves (especially the proximal) strigose or strigillose; (drier places) Alabama to South Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, s Missouri, Tennessee
|[[29b.Solidago arguta var. boottii|29b.Solidago arguta var. boottii]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Solidago arguta
|authority=Aiton
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=Aster argutus
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.
|reference=morton1973a
|publication title=Hort. Kew.
|publication year=1789
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_266.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Solidago
|section=Solidago sect. Solidago
|subsection=Solidago subsect. Argutae
|series=Solidago (sect. Solidago) ser. Argutae
|species=Solidago arguta
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