Showy Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa
Yellow flowers from August into October, worked by common eastern bumble bees and tri-colored bumble bees. It grows wild in 1 of Georgia’s 159 counties.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 4.5 ft to 7 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Aug to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- 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
Common Wild Quinine
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Orange Coneflower
Scarlet Beebalm
Steeplebush
Southern Arrowwood
Dense Blazing-star
Rattlesnake-master
Facts from the Quercus record for Solidago speciosa.