WorldFloraDB - Solidago virgaurea

Characteristics

A tall herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 60-150 cm high. The stem at the base is simple and stout. The leaves are the base are sword shaped and with a narrow point. They are 8-20 cm long. They can have rounded teeth. There are only a few leaves on the stem and they do not have leaf stalks. The flowers are in spikes. The flowers are yellow and like a daisy.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

anemochory

Mature width (meter)

0.4 - 0.5

Mature height (meter)

0.6 - 1.0

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

0.5

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

Dry woods, grassland, rocks, cliffs, hedgebanks, dunes etc on acid or calcareous soils.

More

It is a temperate plant.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The leaves and flowers are dried and used for tea.

Uses	dye food medicinal tea
Edible	flowers leaves
Therapeutic use	Diarrhea (root), Diuretics (root), Dysentery (root), Edema (root), Flatulence (root), Astringent (unspecified), Carminative (unspecified), Cicatrizant (unspecified), Digestive (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Eczema (unspecified), Lithontriptic (unspecified), Nephritis (unspecified), Pertussis (unspecified), Renitis (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Stimulant (unspecified), Sudorific (unspecified), Tea (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Vulnerary (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Asthma (unspecified), Dropsy (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Edema (unspecified), Nervine (unspecified), Diuretics (whole plant), Edema (whole plant), Flatulence (whole plant)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

It can be grown by seeds or division of the root.

Mode	divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days)	14 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°)	15
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-29
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-