Showy Goldenrod, Solidago speciosa Nutt., Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Showy Goldenrod	Solidago speciosa Nutt.	Aster (Composite)	Upland	Autumn
Other names and notes	In this Goldenrod, the flower cluster is taller than it is broad, with the flowers appearing on spike like branches at the top of the stem that can be from 8 to 60 inches high. The individual yellow flowers have 6 to 8 rays. The bracts of the flower head are yellowish and slightly sticky. The lance-shaped leaves usually without teeth, not hairy, and the uppers are much smaller. Stems are smooth and reddish but he branches of the inflorescence can have fine hair. It grows best in full sun with dry to moderate moisture.


Blooms from late September

Below right and left: The smooth reddish stems and lance shaped thick leaves of Showy Goldenrod.

Below: Detail of Showy Goldenrod. Note the yellow bracts of the individual flower heads.

Notes: This plant is indigenous to the Garden area. Eloise Butler catalogued it on Sept. 6, 1907. It was listed on Martha Crone's 1951 Garden Census. It is native to Minnesota in a wide band of counties running from the SE to the NW, rarer in the SW the the NE.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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