Flat-topped Goldenrod

Euthamia graminifolia

Hosts 1 caterpillarBird foodPollinator plant

Growing it

When	Flowers August to September; fruits September to October
Type	wildflower
Sun	Full sun, partial shade
Water	Low, medium
Soil	pH 5.5–7
Hardiness	zone 3–8
Mature height	1 m
Mature spread	0.9 m
Spacing	0.6 m
Years to maturity	3
Bloom	Aug–Sep
Flower colour	Yellow read from a published flora
In bloom	August September
Fruit	Sep–Oct
Native to	AB, SK

narrow linear leaves about 8 cm long

Where it has been recorded

BothSpecimensObservations

61 squares of about 28 km, each holding at least one record. A square is not a claim that the plant grows throughout it, and an unshaded square is unrecorded rather than empty. Darker squares hold more records, which follows roads and towns as much as it follows the plant. 40 herbarium specimens and 103 field observations this project may redraw. A filled dot is a pressed sheet somebody can re-examine; a hollow ring is a photograph identified by community agreement. Where the dots are dense is where people have looked, not where the plant is commonest, and empty ground is unsurveyed rather than unoccupied. How this map is made.

Which ecoregions the records fall in

Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 61 records, high confidence
Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 40 records, high confidence
Fescue Grassland south AB: 28 records, high confidence
Peace Lowland north AB: 14 records, medium confidence
Mid-Boreal Uplands central AB / SK: 7 records, low confidence
Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 6 records, low confidence
Northern Continental Divide south AB: 4 records, low confidence
Slave River Lowland north AB: 3 records, low confidence
Western Alberta Upland central AB: 3 records, low confidence

These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.

See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.

Documented animals

163 documented relationships.

nectar for

Aerial Yellowjacket Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Agapostemon splendens Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Agapostemon texanus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Agrotis ipsilon Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
American Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
American Lady Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
American Sand Wasp Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Ammophila procera Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Ancistrocerus adiabatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Ancistrocerus catskill Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Andrena hirticincta Specimen records from mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu
Aphilanthops frigidus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Aphrodite Fritillary Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Arcigera Flower Moth Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Arctic Yellowjacket Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Atlantis Fritillary Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Autographa precationis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Bald-faced Hornet Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Bicoloured Sweat Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Bicyrtes ventralis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Black Swallowtail Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Black-shouldered Drone Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Boxelder Bug Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Bronze Copper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Bronzed Cutworm Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Brown-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Calligrapher Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Celery Looper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Ceratina calcarata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Chain-dotted Geometer Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Checkered White Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Clouded Sulphur Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Coelioxys octodentatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Colletes simulans Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Common Checkered-Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Common Wood-Nymph Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Confused Eusarca Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Confusing Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Cosmopepla lintneriana Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Crambodes talidiformis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Danaus gilippus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Delicate Cycnia Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Dingy Cutworm Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Dolichovespula norvegicoides Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Drone Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eastern Calligrapher Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eastern Tailed-Blue Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Ectemnius arcuatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Ectemnius maculosus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Elophila icciusalis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Epicauta pensylvanica Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eristalis anthophorina Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eristalis flavipes Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Euaresta aequalis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eumenes crucifera Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Euodynerus foraminatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Euodynerus hidalgo Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eupeodes americanus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Euxoa detersa Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Exoprosopa decora Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Feltia herilis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Goldenrod Soldier Beetle Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Gray Hairstreak Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Great Golden Digger Wasp Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Great Spangled Fritillary Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Half-black Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Halictus confusus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Halictus farinosus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Halictus ligatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Halictus tripartitus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Helophilus fasciatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Helophilus lapponicus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Himmelman's Plume Moth Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Hunt's Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Hylaeus modestus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Hypena scabra Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Hystricia abrupta Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Isodontia elegans Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Isodontia mexicana Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Lacinipolia renigera Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Lasioglossum nigroviride Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Leucospis affinis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Lopidea instabilis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Lucerne Moth Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Lucilia silvarum Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Lygaeus kalmii Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Meadow Fritillary Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Megachile latimanus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Megachile pugnata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Megacyllene robiniae Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Melissodes bimatris Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Melissodes druriellus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Melissodes menuachus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Melissodes utahensis Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Milbert's Tortoiseshell Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Mint Root Borer Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Monarch Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Morning-glory Plume Moth Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Mourning Cloak Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Mylitta Crescent Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Northern Amber Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Northern Crescent Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Northern Paper Wasp Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Orange Sulphur Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Orange-legged Furrow Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Painted Lady Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Pale Swallowtail Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Paragus haemorrhous Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Pearl Crescent Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Peck's Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Philanthus bilunatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Philanthus gibbosus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Philanthus ventilabris Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Physocephala furcillata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Physocephala tibialis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Pink-edged Sulphur Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Poecilanthrax tegminipennis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Polydontomyia curvipes Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Polygonia faunus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Prionyx atratus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Prochoerodes lineola Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Purplish Copper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Pyrausta orphisalis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Red Admiral Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Red-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Rivula propinqualis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Satyrium calanus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Scallop Shell Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Scalloped Sallow Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Sceliphron caementarium Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Silver-spotted Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Sphaerophoria contigua Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Spilomyia sayi Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Spotted Cucumber Beetle Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Summer Azure Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Symmorphus canadensis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Synanthedon exitiosa Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Syrphus rectus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Syrphus torvus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Tarnished Plant Bug Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Tawny-edged Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Tricoloured Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Udea rubigalis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Variegated Fritillary Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Vespula alascensis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Vespula consobrina Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Vespula maculifrons Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Viceroy Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
White Admiral Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Woodland Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Yellow-banded Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Yellow-collared Scape Moth Specimen records from iNaturalist.org

pollen for

Bracon atrator Robertson 1929
Calliopsis andreniformis Robertson 1929
Dolerus aprilis Robertson 1929
Eucera atriventris Robertson 1929
Orange-legged Furrow Bee Robertson 1929
Pearl Crescent Robertson 1929
Senotainia trilineata Robertson 1929
Trichopsomyia apisaon Robertson 1929
Variegated Fritillary Robertson 1929

caterpillar host for

Cucullia convexipennis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org

Also worth knowing

Safety

Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety

Buying it

About $8–$16 per plant (estimate), usually stocked by garden centres. Estimate (herb default); AB retail as of 2026

Where these numbers came from

Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate