Native / Warm season
Canada Goldenrod
Meadow-style pollinator beds where spreading colonies are acceptable.
Grown for late-season nectar, not culinary harvest.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 365
- Germination temperature
- 60-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.125 inches
- Spacing
- 24 inches
- Row spacing
- 36 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Low to moderate water after establishment.
- Soil
- Average soil; tolerates meadow conditions.
- Watch
- Can spread aggressively in small formal gardens.
- native
- late-season
- pollinators
- perennial
Browse context
- Native Catalog Category collection
- Aster Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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