Goldenrod

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Here is what weather .com posted Monday:


Here is what they posted today:

“Correction: Earlier this week, we published an article about hay fever that featured a photo of goldenrod. Goldenrod is generally not considered to be a significant cause of seasonal allergies.”

Ha! Beautiful plants, we should alll be enjoying them in our gardens and bouquets. I imagine that it is the color we associate with pollen.

Steve

 

[flowerbug]

i think the culprit for many people and areas is ragweed which blooms at about that same time...

 

[Blueberry Acres]

It stinks when goldenrod is confused with ragweed and killed...it's such a beneficial native plant! I have a huge volunteer in my main garden bed and love it. It attracts more bees and butterflies than any other flower I've had.

I wish people would stop assuming that yellow equals allergies and plant goldenrod instead of destroy it!

 

[flowerbug]

it is a very tough plant. i had one get established in my strawberry patch and taking it out involved digging a hole about 3x3ftx2ft to get at all the roots and remove them.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I just looked up Goldenrod. Its a word from my past somewhere, but I'd forgotten about it. All the varieties are pretty! I wonder if I have any here?

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Of the more than seventy species of Solidago native to North America, only a small handful of them make their home in the Pacific Northwest; most of them are the taller, upright variety, though there is one alpine variety"

Seems to be late summer early fall blooming, up to 6 feet tall.