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 97 of Virginia’s 133 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
- 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
New Jersey Tea
Calico Aster
Small's Ragwort
Heartleaf Aster
New England Aster
Black Huckleberry
Dwarf Azalea
Yellow Wild IndigoFacts from the Quercus record for Solidago caesia.