Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Solidago rugosa
Yellow flowers from July into October, worked by common eastern bumble bees and tri-colored bumble bees. It grows wild in 30 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 3.5 ft to 5 ft tall, 2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Jul to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; wants 12 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 110 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 82 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 2 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens), Tri-colored bumble bee (Bombus ternarius), Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Mining bee (Andrena hirticincta)
Grows well with
Calico Aster
New England Aster
New Jersey Tea
Swamp Azalea
Fragrant Sumac
Tall Blue Wild Indigo
Black-eyed Susan
Brown-eyed SusanFacts from the Quercus record for Solidago rugosa.