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 48 of Virginia’s 133 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
- 117 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
Aromatic Aster
Common Wild Quinine
Steeplebush
Scarlet Beebalm
Dense Blazing-star
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Southern Arrowwood
Facts from the Quercus record for Solidago speciosa.