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Solidago altissima altissima (Canada goldenrod)

Synonyms: Solidago altissima var. altissima; Solidago procera var. salicifolia; Solidago scabra (homotypic)

Invasive Species

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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Screening - Summer [3]  Dense
Screening - Winter [3]  Porous
Bee Flower Color [2]  Green
Flower Color [3]  Yellow
Foliage Color [3]  Green
Fruit Color [3]  Brown
Bloom Period [3]  Late Summer
Drought Tolerance [3]  Medium
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [3]  High
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  80 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [3]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [3]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [3]  Fall
Growth Form [3]  Rhizomatous
Growth Period [3]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [3]  Rapid
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [4]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Propagation [3]  Bare Root, Seed, Sprig
Regrowth Rate [3]  Moderate
Root Depth [3]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [3]  Slow
Seed Vigor [3]  Medium
Seeds Per [3]  4599991 / lb (10141252 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [3]  Erect
Structure [6]  Herb
Usage [4]  Mustard, orange and brown dyes can be obtained from the whole plant; The source of 'Canadian goldenrod' oil; We have no further details, but it is likely to be an essential oil.
Vegetative Spread Rate [3]  Rapid
Flower Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Height [4]  5.904 feet (1.8 m)
Width [4]  39 inches (1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 2 Low Temperature: -50 F° (-45.6 C°) → -40 F° (-40 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [5]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [5]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [5]  Moist
Water Use [3]  Moderate
View Plants For A Future Record : Solidago altissima altissima

Protected Areas

Emblem of

Kentucky

Predators

Providers

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces cichoracearum[8]
Golovinomyces orontii[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 5ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 10Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0