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Goldenrod

noun

Any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago.

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broad leaved goldenrod

rough-stemmed goldenrod

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"Goldenrod" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the seeing eye and the loving spirit? And who can reap that harvest so closely that there shall not be abundant gleaning left for all mankind? The most that a wide estate can yield to its legal owner is a living. But the real owner can gather from a field of goldenrod, shining in the August sunlight, an unearned ...

— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke

... wrongs as he tramped along the path between Bud's cabin and his own. His high-flung head was bent and his gaze downcast. He struck ruthlessly at the dry stalks of goldenrod on the bank, nodding southward before the prevailing wind. He still was brooding as he approached his cabin; brooding so darkly as to bring over his judgment the dim mists of error and of injustice with their attendant ...

— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

... not likely to; the only thing I'll know by the end of this summer will be how many cans of tomatoes the Goldenrod Canning ...

— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence

... as Ralph and Jean came slowly up the drive together. Jean's arms were filled with early goldenrod, and she had some woodbine leaves fastened in a close fillet crown about her smooth dark hair. Ralph came up the veranda steps and seated himself on a pile of straw ...

— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester

... went where goldenrod was blooming and where some of the birds that had beaten him on the journey southward were flitting and chirping in the trees. A little brook that bordered the narrow, fragrant way seemed hurrying along at his side, laughing in its pebbly bed, as if to give him a welcome home. ...

— Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Words linked to "Goldenrod" : Solidago canadensis, wildflower, Solidago rugosa, wild flower, Solidago odora, dyer's weed, Solidago, Solidago sempervirens, Blue Mountain tea, Solidago bicolor, Solidago multiradiata, Solidago missouriensis, silverrod, Solidago nemoralis, Solidago spathulata, genus Solidago