Blue-stemmed Goldenrod

Solidago caesia

This woodland goldenrod has clusters of flowers at the axils of leaves along the stems, creating the effect of a thin wand of successive puffs of color. Each cluster, about 1 inch across, contains perhaps 12-20 indiviual flowers, and each flower has only a half-dozen or fewer rays.  Leaves are small (usually 3 inches or less in length), sessile (attached to directly to stem), pointed at both ends, smooth, and slightly toothed or untoothed.  Stems are smooth, green or purple.

1-3 feet, shade-partial shade.

Summer-Autumn (August-October).

Note sparse rays on flowers and barely toothed leaves.  

28 September 2020.

Blue-stemmed Goldenrod, 28 September 2020.