The relatively short stature (often 2 feet or less), usually leaning/nodding cluster, and hairy leaves and stems distinguish it from other Goldenrods.
Easily grown in average, dry to medium, slightly acidic, well-drained soils in full sun. Prefers full sun and dry soil. Tolerates light shade. Likes rocky, sandy soils. Tolerates poor soils, but plants generally grow taller and more vigorously in rich soils. This is a rhizomatous, spreading, somewhat weedy plant that can colonize an area by creeping rhizomes and self-seeding. Removal of flower heads prior to ripening of seed, if practicable, will help prevent seed dispersal.
The flowers have a variety of insect pollinators, including honey bees, carpenter bees, sweat bees, plasterer bees, sphecid wasps, vespid wasps, butterflies, moths, beetles, hoverflies, tachinid flies, flesh flies, blow flies, and muscid flies.
Grows to 12-36"
Blooms August-October
Solidago nemoralis
Photos by Peter Dzuik of Minnesota Wildflowers, Eric in SF - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=173260036
The relatively short stature (often 2 feet or less), usually leaning/nodding cluster, and hairy leaves and stems distinguish it from other Goldenrods.
Easily grown in average, dry to medium, slightly acidic, well-drained soils in full sun. Prefers full sun and dry soil. Tolerates light shade. Likes rocky, sandy soils. Tolerates poor soils, but plants generally grow taller and more vigorously in rich soils. This is a rhizomatous, spreading, somewhat weedy plant that can colonize an area by creeping rhizomes and self-seeding. Removal of flower heads prior to ripening of seed, if practicable, will help prevent seed dispersal.
The flowers have a variety of insect pollinators, including honey bees, carpenter bees, sweat bees, plasterer bees, sphecid wasps, vespid wasps, butterflies, moths, beetles, hoverflies, tachinid flies, flesh flies, blow flies, and muscid flies.
Grows to 12-36"
Blooms August-October
Solidago nemoralis
Photos by Peter Dzuik of Minnesota Wildflowers, Eric in SF - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=173260036
