genus Solidago


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Noun1.genus Solidago - goldenrodgenus Solidago - goldenrod        
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
aster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
goldenrod - any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago
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From 1968 to 1994, John Morton (1928-2011) was a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo, where he taught plant taxonomy and worked on the systematics of the mint family (Lamiaceae), the pink family (Caryophyllaceae), and goldenrods (the genus Solidago in the family Asteraceae).
The evidence strongly implies that the ancestral host association of the genus Ophraella is with tribe Astereae, very possibly with the genus Solidago. We now remark on the test plants, proceeding from left to right in figure 1.