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Solidago satanica

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 21, 2023
Entity authorityQ15566689 ↗
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Solidago satanica, the devil's goldenrod, is a rare North American plant species in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the state of North Dakota in the north-central United States. It was first described in 1911 from specimens collected near Devil's Lake in Ramsey County.

Solidago satanica is a perennial herb up to 80 cm (32 inches) tall. Leaves are lance-shaped. Flower heads are each about 3 mm high. The species appears to be closely related to S. canadensis.

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“Solidago satanica” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Solidago, satanica and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Solidago, satanica and species.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 21, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q15566689. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1911.

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This entry incorporates text from “Solidago satanica” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.