Solidago Nemoralis - Make Your Garden Golden with It!
Posted: Wednesday, October 07, 2009
by Dennis Sons
tn nursery
Solidago nemoralis , also called the Gray Goldenrod or the Old Field Goldenrod, is a plant that has celebrated beauty. It is a native plant of the wildlife whose beautiful yellow flower with grey leaves make it a loveable plant that people demand for in a nursery . It grows naturally in prairies, meadows or savanna and its seeds are used largely for commercial purpose. The seedlings of this plant are prepared in a nursery, but if required to grow on large scale, buy the seeds from the wholesalers. Just a single packet of 200 seeds covers an area of about 30 feet. For this reason, they are largely grown on the roadsides.
This wildlife plant grows to a height of 6 to 24 inches. The plants when put in an area must have gap of more than 8 inches to give the roots space to expand. This plant is capable of sustaining itself in poor soil too. It is grown largely in homes and rock gardens to attract the butterflies. The stem of this plant have mix color of green and grey. It has some white hair like structure, which gives a soft feel. It stands erect and has a clump of foliage. The leaves expand to a height of 4 inches and a width of 0.5 inches, arranged in an alternate pattern. The size of the leaves reduces as it goes up the stem.
The fascinating yellow flowers grow in numbers at the same time. The size of the flowers is approximately 0.5 inches. There are almost 4 - 10 florets surrounding a base floret. Though the active growth is apparent even in spring, the blooming period begins in summer, which is normally not more than 30 days. The distinct smell of these wildlife flowers along with its beauty catches the attraction, otherwise many people take them to be weeds and uproot them from the ground for cleaning the place. After a few days, some tufts are formed on the flowers and now the seeds would be dispersed by the winds. As a result, new plants grow up and they form a colony.
Other than the winds, overabundance of insects collects pollens from these plants and expands the vegetation. The honeybees collect nectar from here. The long and short-tongued bee, moth, beetle, flesh and music flies, Spheris and Vapid wasps are the regular visitors of this plant. The caterpillars eat the foliage. The goldfinch of north and prairie chicken feed on the seeds of this plant.
It is a perennial plant . The life span of this plant is poor but it is preferred because of its beauty. This plant might have not much utility for humans, but it is as valuable as gold for sustaining the environment.
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