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...

One of the shortest goldenrods with significantly gray leaves and towards one side nodding flowers. Excellent plant for dry, lean, poor soils, where nothing else grows.... 2' tall x 1' wide (grows taller in richer or moist soil). Flowers in August to...

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"...

Goldenrods are unfortunately not very popular perennials, but they are all very beneficial for pollinators and butterflies for it's late flowering, they are tough plants - drought tolerant, usually clay tolerant and also deer, rabbit and black walnut...

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:...

Unique hybrid of white flowering Solidago ptarmicoides (also called Aster ptarmicoides) with yellow-flowering Goldenrod. 'Sweet Kisses' gained from this cross: a natural look with bigger flowers, great vigor, vitality and adaptability to many soil types,...

'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...

The name of this gorgeous clump-forming perennial comes from its past use – Native Americans (Creek and Cherokee) used the poisonous root to expel intestinal worms. The flowers are tubular, with an extraordinary bright red-yellow color combination,...

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...

Clumping native grass for dry or sandy soils.  More or less unknown in horticulture (also new to us). or urban and naturalistic landscaping. Blooming Time: summer - early fall Size: 32" tall (with flowers)  x 12-16" wide (the size depends...

'Gone With The Wind' is a seed strain (a bit variable) cultivar, that is smaller than the species of Sporobolus heterolepis. Clumping, long-lived grass with fragrant flowers. Beautiful golden-orange color in the fall and beige in the winter. Prairie...