• Widely distributed
  
• Found on roadsides and other open grassy places, open woods, clearings, thickets

• come in a variety of shapes: plume-like, branched, club-like, slender, flat-topped
  
• height differs depending on species
  
  

• Variable: toothed or untoothed, often slender
  
• Come in one of two vein patterns: parallel veins or veins coming off a central stem
  

• July-November, depending on species
  
• Composite flowers
  
• Tiny with yellow rays, collected in dense clusters
  

The yellow flowers of goldenrod produce a deep yellow dye.