Seasonal Wild Flowers

Latin name

Solidago graminifolia

Family

Asteraceae

Flowering season

July to Sep[tember

English distribution

It is thinly scattered throughout the country but is most

common in southern and western areas. It is absent from

the map in the Southeast and East Anglia, but the

pictures shown here were taken in rough grassland in

the Southeast in Hendon, London, next to where

the North Circular meets the A1.

See the BSBI distribution map for Grass-leaved Goldenrod

Habitat

It is a neophyte which was introduced from North America.

It has become naturalised on waste ground, banks, tracks

and rough grassland.

Description

Grass-leaved Goldenrod is a herb growing up to 1.5m.

The flowers are in flat-topped flower spikes.

Individual flowerheads are up to 2cm and have yellow disc

and ray florets.

The ray florets roll up at the end of flowering.

The seed heads have feathery pappi in a clock.

The leaves are greyish-green, linear and veined.

The stems are smooth and round.