Solidago speciosa (Showy Goldenrod)

grows 2-3 ft. tall

grows in full sun

prefers dry to medium soils

blooms yellow from July-September

natural habitat: mesic to dry Blackland prairies, sand prairies, clearings and edges of rocky upland woods, Black oak savannas, thickets and old fields

host plant for butterflies, moths and beetles

deer resistant

companion plants: Schizachyrium Scoparium (Little Bluestem), Liatris aspera (Rough Blazing Star), Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem), Symphyotrichum laeve (Smooth Blue Aster), Amorpha canescens (Lead Plant), Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master), Baptisia australis (False Indigo), Aster ericoides (Heath Aster)