Solidago bicolor - WHITE GOLDENROD (SILVERROD)
Unique creamy-white native goldenrod, very adaptable to light and soil condition and very drought tolerant.
Pollinator magnet as any other goldenrod.
Blooming Time: July - September/October
Size: usually 2' tall and 1' wide (in poor dry soil can be only 1' tall, in more rich soil up to 3' tall)
USDA Zones: 3 to 8
Culture: sun, half shade, light (dappled) shade. Average soils, dry clay, drained soils (naturally sandy, gritty, or amended with gravel, sand, etc). Medium to dry soil. Difficult transition light/shade areas in the garden, in partial shade of the tree crowns, etc. Avoid waterlogged soils! Drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: medium, medium-dry to dry
Origin: Native to eastern part of the USA and Canada, see the BONAP distribution map.
Can be found in opening in the woods, woodland edges, ditches, thickets, savannas, often on poorer, rocky soils
Black Walnut Tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes / yes. Variety of bees, wasps, flies, beetles and butterflies. Small songbirds eat the seeds to a minor extent.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Hard to identified sunny/shade edges, sunny beds, cottage garden, naturalistic gardens, pollinator gardens, on difficult soil. Good with many common perennials that tolerate drained or drier soils : Echinacea, Achillea, Agastache, Amsonia, summer blooming Allium, Asclepias tuberosa, Aster, Baptisia, Calamintha, Coreopsis, Gaura, Knautia, Liatris, Monarda, Nepeta, Oenothera, Penstemons, Platycodon (taller ones), Rudbeckia, Salvia nemorosa hybrids, tall Sedum, Solidago, Stachys, Vernonia lettermannii, taller Veronica, Yucca, and grasses like Bouteloa, Muhlenbergia, Sporobolus, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sorghastrum or Panicum.
Picture Copyright: Kevin Faccenda, Flickr
Solidago bicolor - WHITE GOLDENROD (SILVERROD)
Unique creamy-white native goldenrod, very adaptable to light and soil condition and very drought tolerant.
Pollinator magnet as any other goldenrod.
Blooming Time: July - September/October
Size: usually 2' tall and 1' wide (in poor dry soil can be only 1' tall, in more rich soil up to 3' tall)
USDA Zones: 3 to 8
Culture: sun, half shade, light (dappled) shade. Average soils, dry clay, drained soils (naturally sandy, gritty, or amended with gravel, sand, etc). Medium to dry soil. Difficult transition light/shade areas in the garden, in partial shade of the tree crowns, etc. Avoid waterlogged soils! Drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: medium, medium-dry to dry
Origin: Native to eastern part of the USA and Canada, see the BONAP distribution map.
Can be found in opening in the woods, woodland edges, ditches, thickets, savannas, often on poorer, rocky soils
Black Walnut Tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes / yes. Variety of bees, wasps, flies, beetles and butterflies. Small songbirds eat the seeds to a minor extent.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Hard to identified sunny/shade edges, sunny beds, cottage garden, naturalistic gardens, pollinator gardens, on difficult soil. Good with many common perennials that tolerate drained or drier soils : Echinacea, Achillea, Agastache, Amsonia, summer blooming Allium, Asclepias tuberosa, Aster, Baptisia, Calamintha, Coreopsis, Gaura, Knautia, Liatris, Monarda, Nepeta, Oenothera, Penstemons, Platycodon (taller ones), Rudbeckia, Salvia nemorosa hybrids, tall Sedum, Solidago, Stachys, Vernonia lettermannii, taller Veronica, Yucca, and grasses like Bouteloa, Muhlenbergia, Sporobolus, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sorghastrum or Panicum.
Picture Copyright: Kevin Faccenda, Flickr