Letter from Celia Oxley
Allergies? Don’t Blame Goldenrod
Think that the yellow flowers that blossom in abundance this time of year are responsible for your allergy symptoms? Think again. Goldenrod is often misidentified as ragweed. Although both are members of the aster family of plants, they are vastly different.
Goldenrod has yellow flowers that splay out somewhat at the top of their stems. Goldenrod is important to pollinating insects by providing essential nectar. The pollen from goldenrod largely stays put in the flowers, except from the pollen that pollinators pick up on their bodies as they feast on the nectar.
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