PLATE 21. 



NARROW-LEAVED GOLDEN ROD. Solidago lanceolata. L. 



Other English names : Bushy or Fragrant Goldenrod, Yellow-weed. 



Other Latin names: Euthamia graminifoUa (L.) Nutt. ; Chrysocoma 

 grainmi folia, L. 



Native. Perennial. Stems erect, cymosely branched above, 2 to 3 feet 

 high, almost smooth. Leaves numerous, linear-lanceolate, 1 to 5 inches long, 

 the edges rough-pubescent. Separate heads of flowers about one-quarter of 

 an inch across, bright golden yellow in dense, flat-topped clusters. Seeds 

 (achenes) ovate-oblong, small, ^V of an inch, downy. Pappus white. 



Time of Flowering : July to September; seeds ripe in September. 



Propagation : By seeds blown by the wind, and by long running root- 

 stocks forming new plants at the tips, and, if left undisturbed, soon forming 

 large patches. 



Occurrence : In low land, throughout the Dominion. 



Injury : Much complained of as a weed in damp hay meadows in the 

 Eastern Provinces. The seeds, which are produced in large numbers, bear 

 a silky pappus, by means of which they are blown long distances by the wind. 



Remedy : This and all the other Goldenrods root near the surface of the 

 ground and are easily destroyed by ordinary cultivation or shallow ploughing. 



Several different Goldenrods are mentioned from time to time by farmers 

 as rather troublesome, free-growing perennial weeds. The species most com- 

 plained of is the Narrow-leaved Goldenrod ; but frequent mention is also made 

 of the Canada Goldenrod, Solidago canadensis, L., of which there are several 

 varieties — the Smooth Goldenrod, Solidago serotina, Ait., and the Tall Hairy 

 Goldenrod, Solidago rugosa, Nutt. These gay, showy autumn-flowering 

 plants are all easily controlled by ordinary methods of good farming, and are 

 more wayside and fence-corner weedy plants than agricultural posts of well 

 worked land. 



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