Golden Rods & Snake Root. How To Locate?

[onlybrad]

I'm trying to figure out how to locate these things. I guess it is about the end of the season, right. Does anybody have pictures to show the different stages of this plant? What colors are these normally during season?

Do they grow more under the trees or out in the open?

Also does anybody have and pictures of snake root so I can figure out what these things look like?

Thanks,
Brad

[boo]

Hi OnlyBrad

Snakeroot is a shade lover that likes moist soil.

Goldenrod loves sun. I always see it in open fields & I happen to think it's pretty. This is an interesting tidbit...


Goldenrod does not cause hay fever. It has been wrongly accused for the pollen problems created by ragweed and the grasses. Goldenrod has brightly colored flowers to attract color-sensitive insects. Its pollen grains are relatively large, heavier than air, because they are designed to be carried off by flies, bees, butterflies, even ants or birds, but not by the wind.

If goldenrod was not so plentiful, perhaps we would prize it more. Many species have been moved to the gardens of England and the European continent.

As for pictures :unsure: I don't have any pictures of those two, but I would suggest google image search.

for instance here is a search for goldenrod
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&h...f=1&q=Goldenrod ('http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Goldenrod')

The system isn't perfect and might toss up a few irrelevant results, but it does seem to get to a lot of photos fast. :)

BTW, welcome to BlossomSwap!

[TransplantShock]

http://www.blossomswap.com/garden-forums/i...e=post&id=24384 ('http://www.blossomswap.com/garden-forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=24384')

Both in bloom.....this is how it is growing wild in my woods!

The yellow is golden rod, the fluffyier white is snake root and the white in front are asters.

[donybee]

Looks like my back yard tps, :lol: :lol: :lol: and a hearty welcome to the Blossomswap forum from N W Pennsylvania onlybrad.

[grindle]

welcome to Blosoomswap onlybrad :rolleyes:

[decompost]

just wanted to add my <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>hello!</span>, onlybrad,
i've been reading your thread, and learning, myself :blink: .

[MaryG]

Goldenrod can rampage through a garden if you let it. Still, the flowers have an interesting sweet smell and the bees LOVE them. They just swarm the flowers every year and they're one of the late bloomers which always adds interest to a garden.

[TransplantShock]

Monarchs love em too :wub: I think they have some viarities that are more behaved. I read that somewhere but cant remember where :unsure:

[onlybrad]

Goldenrod can rampage through a garden if you let it. Still, the flowers have an interesting sweet smell and the bees LOVE them. They just swarm the flowers every year and they're one of the late bloomers which always adds interest to a garden.
Nice to meet everybody! ;)

Where can I get some goldenrod to plant?

How much does it cost?

When should I plant it and when should it come up?

Can I make it thick as possible or should I space it out?

Brad

[MaryG]

Brad - go to the top of the page and click on Seed Exchange. When you get there you can put in an ad asking for goldenrod. You can offer to pay the postage or maybe you have something nice to trade.

Plant it now, as thick or as thin as you want, it'll fill in any area you want.

It'll die down over the winter but come back again in spring as strong as ever.

[Soilman]

Transplant Shock,

You seem to dig the monarchs, and the monarchs seem to dig the Goldenrod. I also dig monarchs, however I don't dig bees, and bees dig Goldenrod also. So my question to you is this: What do the monarchs dig that the bees don't?

[Rowan]

goldenrod (Solidago) makes a pleasing herbal tea which is used as an holistic cure for allergies ... and also asthma, I think.
although most love the sun, there are two shade loving goldenrods native to N. America, one of which is S. 'Bluestem' and I can't remember the other. The photo below shows a sun loving variety which has intruded itself upon an (unkempt ^_^ ) asparagas bed .... they will grow like weeds, but if you're growing weeds anyway ... :lol:


Without being sure of my facts I would not think there would be any flowers which butterflies favored and bees did not, as I believe their tongues are roughly the same length .... :unsure: ... I do know butterflies are ominvores and will eat dead meat ... offering the conclusion that a garden of roadkill would feed butterflies but not bees, however I should hardly think that's what you want :rolleyes: :lol: :lol:

[Nettle]

Hi Brad! Welcome to BS.
My goldenrod came by *bird-poo* I guess, and though I first tried to get rid of it, cause everybody told me that its a terrible invasive weed, I finally kept a small patch near a roof pipe. It almost grows everywhere, if you let it. Its over 6ft high in my garden and the bees, butterflies and all buzzing critters just love it.
Now it the time of year (at least its here) to gather, pick or *borrow* seeds along the way. I always have some tiny plastic bags with me......just in case ;)

[Soilman]

Road Kill.... maybe we could work with that, by the time the smell fades, and decomposition is done you'd have a natural fertilizer. Maybe I'll trade you for some asparagas seeds. :ph34r: