ADDISONIA 43 
(Plate 182) 
SOLIDAGO RUGOSA 
Wrinkle-leaved Golden-rod 
Native of eastern North America 
Family CARDUACEAE THIstLe Family 
Solidago rugosa Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. Solidago no. 25. 1768. 
This, one of the brightest colored of our golden-rods, inhabits 
fields, roadsides, and fence-rows, making the landscape bright in 
September with its golden color. Flowering at about the time the 
New England aster comes into bloom, and growing in similar situa- 
tions, it makes a striking combination with the rich purple of that 
plant. With the great wealth of golden-rods and asters which 
adorn our fields and woods, it is regrettable that so few of them are 
used to beautify our gardens. ‘They stand transplanting well, and 
in any neighborhood a wealth of material may be secured, for the 
mere digging, which would add an autumn glory to the garden. 
This golden-rod is of easy culture, thriving in any ordinary 
garden soil, but preferring an open sunny situation as its natural 
habitat would suggest. It may be readily propagated by division 
of the roots, or by seeds. The illustration was prepared from a 
wild plant collected in the grounds of the New York Botanical 
Garden, where it is common. : 
Referring again to the many kinds of golden-rods, it may be 
stated that there are growing wild in northeastern North America 
about fifty species, all but one, with white flowers, having blossoms 
of some shade of yellow; in addition there are many others in the 
southern and western states. The genus is typically North Ameri- 
can, but two or three species being known from Europe, and a few 
from Mexico and South America. 
The wrinkle-leaved golden-rod is one of the commonest of our 
eastern wild species, attaining a height usually of four to six feet, 
exceeding this. The st 
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branched at the summit, and are hairy or sometimes nearly glabrous 
The alternate leaves are up to four inches lon an in 
half wide, sessile, or the lowest sometimes narrowing into petioles 
