Bluestem Goldenrod
Solidago caesia
Yellow flowers from August into October, worked by common eastern bumble bees and tri-colored bumble bees. It grows wild in 10 of Georgia’s 159 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 2.5 ft to 4 ft tall, 2.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Aug to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; wants 8 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 96 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
New Jersey Tea
Calico Aster
Small's Ragwort
Robin's-plantain
Heartleaf Aster
Black Huckleberry
Black-eyed Susan
New England AsterFacts from the Quercus record for Solidago caesia.