Growing Conditions

Lovely goldenrod with different look - narrow grassy leaves and flat inflorescenses. True pollinator magnet! Usually around 3' tall x 1-2' wide (2' in dry soil, 4" tall in moist soil. Flowers in late summer to fall This wildflower is native to most...

As the common name suggest, this is really one of the earliest Goldenrods to bloom. Excellent source of food for native bees, honeybees, butterflies and small birds. Usually 3' tall x 2' wide (in optimum conditions can reach 4' and spread by rhizomes to...

Short native goldenrod for dry sunny garden. Pollinator magnet as any other goldenrod. Blooming Time: July - August/September Size: usually 18-24" tall and wide, in optimal conditions can spread with fibrous roots into smaller loose colonyUSDA...

Heavily blooming goldenrod, tiny flowers, one of the top performers at Mt. Cuba Solidago trials. Great in average to wet soil (and wet clay), well behaved, stays in clumps. Pollinator magnet as any other goldenrod. Blooming Time: July/August - September...

Stiff Goldenrod is one of the golderods that looks different and  has lot more ornamental look, which makes it more suitable for conventional flower beds. It grows usually to 4 ' tall x 2.5' wide. The ornamental value goes with the flat flowers,...

Stiff Goldenrod 'Golden Rocket' is dwarf seed selection made by German company Jelitto. 'Golden Rocket' grows to 1.75' tall x 1' wide. It looks more compact, dense than the wild form, but it keeps all the characteristic of the species - gray leaves, flat...

Compact and shorter version of the rough goldenrod. Surprisingly drought tolerant too. Solidago 'Fireworks' is perfectly named for its flowering stems which look like golden streamers of fireworks in late summer and early fall. Grows to 40" tall and 35"...

Tall, showy and later flowering than other goldenrods. Attracts bees and butterflies, including Monarchs. Usually 4-5' tall x 2' wide clumps, reddish stems with dense plumes of golden flowers in August/September to October/November. Somewhat slender...

Slowly spreading, compact clumps, rosettes of heart-shaped leaves, arching spikes of small yellow flowers. Groundcovering late and long blooming goldenrod with superior qualities.  There are not many reliable groundcovers for sun (most competitive,...

Upright and narrow goldenrod with reddish stems and narrow spikes of yellow flowers.Blooming Time: August-SeptemberSize: usually about 4' tall and 2' wide (in optimum conditions up to 5' tall, and in poor conditions only 2' tall)USDA Zones: 3-7Culture:...

'Indian Steel' is seed strain selection with steel-blue foliage, 5’ tall x 2.5' wide, with feathery spikes of yellow flowers with nice bronze fall color, while the leaves turn yellow. Nice vertical structure, color and fall color makes this all...

Incredibly versatile and adaptable native grass (from dry to moist, sun to very light shade). Soft tufted structure, very long flowering season from June till fall (with the peak in early summer), slightly untidy look towards the end of the season. We...

Native dropseeds, quite common in natural remnants, but not common in gardens. Reminds a bit of Prairie Dropseed - it is clumping grass with fibrous roots, but the flowering stems have tight (closed flowers for the most of the time), and are not...

Cultivar of Prairie Dropseed with a shorter, upright, tight and uniform shape. Rust-red fall color. Introduced by famous nursery man and designer Roy Diblik from Northwind nursery, Wisconsin. 1' tall and wide (2' with flowers), grows in more upright...

One of the easy-to-grow natives and a very showy grass with good ecological value! Prairie dropseed is a major component of the prairie ecosystem along with big bluestem and Indian grass, ranging across North America from the Rocky Mountains. It forms...

Very showy southwestern grass with exotic look and large panicles. This can be one of the substitutes for invasive Miscanthus. For sun and drained soils. 3-5' tall (6' with flowers) x 3-5' wide clumps. 1-2' long flowers (panicles) persist from midsummer...

Superior, tough, easy to grow perennial, winner of Stachys trials in Chicago Botanic Garden. Perennial of the year 2019 (nominated by Perennial Plant Association, USA). Pollinator friendly, long-lived and adaptable. Introduction of famous plantsman and...

" 'Pink Cotton Candy' was bred by Richard Hawke from an open pollinated betony seedling and introduced by the Chicago Botanic Garden in 2009. Its upright flowering stems have dense whorls of cotton candy pink two-lipped flowers in which the upper lip is...