''Solidago juliae'', known as Julia's goldenrod, is a plant native to central and western Texas ( trans-Pecos and Edwards Plateau regions), as well as southern Arizona,

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. It occurs in grasslands, woodlands, and on freshwater shores.Guy L. 1989 Phytologia. 67: 441-450. 1989.
includes Texas distribution map on page 446Flora of North America, ''Solidago juliae'' G. L. Nesom, 1989. Julia’s goldenrod
/ref> ''Solidago juliae'' is a perennial herb sometimes as much as 250 cm (100 inches or 8 1/3 feet) tall. One plant can produce as many as 950 yellow

flower heads A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...

, borne in a large showy

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

at the top of the plant. Each head contains 9-15 ray florets surrounding 5-9 disc florets. Species is named fo
Julia Wells Nesom

includes photos of the plant in the wild, plus photo of type specimen at University of Texas herbarium

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Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Kerr County in Texas in 1989 by Guy L. Nesom and Julia Nesom, isotype of ''Solidago juliae''Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Chihuahua in 1852
juliae Flora of the Southwestern United States Plants described in 1989 Flora of Mexico Taxa named by Guy L. Nesom {{Solidago-stub