Solidago ptarmicoides – Upland White Goldenrod – 1-Quart

Botanists used to call this plant Aster ptarmicoides, Upland White Aster. They now consider it a kind of goldenrod – yes, a white goldenrod that looks just like an aster but isn’t! Whether it’s an aster or a goldenrod, this is a showy plant with 3/4- inch, pure white flowers with bright yellow centers. It will grow in the hottest, driest sandy soils, making it perfect for sandy hillsides, rock gardens and any place most other plants fear to tread!

Some botanists have split off this and a few other species of goldenrod into a separate genus, Oligoneuron. We followed this nomenclature for a while, but are back to listing this as a species of Solidago because Oligoneuron seems mostly to be phylogenetically nested within the genus Solidago, not separate from it.