Solidago odora
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Photo Courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Solidago odora |
| Common name: | anisescented goldenrod, sweet goldenrod |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 2 - 4' |
| Foliage: | leaves entire, narrowly lance-shaped, usually anise-scented when crushed |
| Flower: | yellow flowers in a curved, one sided cluster |
| Flowering time: | mid July to mid August |
| Habitat: | dry, sandy, sterile soil, open ground of thin woods |
| Range in New Jersey: | statewide, most abundant in the Pine barrens |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc.: | Used medicinally by Native Americans and the leaves were also exported for tea in the 1800's.
Stone, in 1910, says, "S. odora is the first to bloom and is found in dry, open, swampy woods, associated with Helianthus divaricatus, Ionactis linariifolius, Sericocarpus asteroides, S. linifolius, etc."(747) |