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Kentucky
Sweet Goldenrod in flower
Douglas Goldman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Sweet Goldenrod

Solidago odora

It grows wild in 20 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.

Light
Part shade to full sun
Soil
Dry to moist soil
Size
3.5 ft to 5 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
Flowers
Yellow
Leaves
Deciduous
Roots
A clump of fibrous roots
Kind
Wildflower
Add to a bedPlan it in a pot

At its grown size

Sweet Goldenrod, drawn in a bed

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 Aster3 ft tallNew England Aster4 ft tallNew Jersey Tea2.5 ft tallSwamp Azalea5 ft tallFragrant Sumac4 ft tallTall Blue Wild Indigo4 ft tallBlack-eyed Susan3 ft tallBrown-eyed Susan4 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Solidago odora.