Solidago caesia (Blue Stemmed Goldenrod)

grows 1.5-3 ft. tall

grows in part shade to full sun

prefers dry to medium soils

blooms yellow from August-September

natural habitat: open upland woods, shaded bluffs, slopes of wooded ravines and rocky cliffs

host plant for aphids, treehoppers, spittlebugs, plant bugs, stink bugs, fruit flies and grasshoppers

moderately deer resistant

companion plants: Symphyotrichum cordifolium (Blue Wood Aster), Chasmanthium latifolium (Northern Sea Oats), Chrysogonum virginianum (Green and Gold), Conoclinium coelestinum (Blue Mistflower), Heliopsis helianthoides (False Sunflower), Amsonia hubrichtii (Narrowleaf Bluestar)