CANADA GOLDENROD 



The little Goldenrods: BIcolor, Wreath, 

 and Broad-Leaved, are all present, snuggling 

 in among the Asters and protected by the 

 wrack and welter of summer glory and summer 

 weeds, when this gay and gallant creature, the 

 Canada Goldenrod, appears in force. The 

 earlier Goldenrods have passed from glory to 

 glory, mixing their yellow plumes with the 

 flowers of summer, and their feathery gold has 

 much of it faded to the soft pale ghost of its 

 former loveliness. But now this glorious Gold- 

 enrod, coming out from the wheat-fields of 

 northern Canada, flinging its magnificent beauty 

 over a continent, marching southward to the 

 Gulf, is one insistent, pervasive, ever-present 

 fact of autumn that even the blindest and dullest 

 cannot fail to note. 



The plant is equipped for its long journey: it 

 is tall and strong, its stem stout and woody; its 

 three-ribbed leaves well clothe its stem, and it 

 overtops most of its companions. 



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