Common name: Gray Goldenrod
Scientific name: Solidago nemoralis
Category: Native Forb, Common Perennial
Sample mature size: 1 m tall, 0.4 m wide; 3.5 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
Sunlight: Partial-sun, Full-sun
Water: Dry
Soil: Clay, Sand, Loam, Gravel
Blooms: Yellow in August
Natural habitats: Open-upland, Meadow-grasslands
Wildlife benefits: Butterflies/skippers 🦋, Bees/wasps 🐝, Beneficial insects 🐞
Points of interest: - Like other goldenrods, this plant attracts many kinds of insects to the flowers, including long-tongued and short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, moths, and beetles. The larvae of many moths feed on the foliage and other parts of this goldenrod ,while the adults like to hide in the flowers. Other insects feed on this and other goldenrods.
- Very aggressive in the right growing conditions
- As with other goldenrods, commonly confused with ragweed as a source for allergies when its pollen is too heavy to be carried on the wind
