As a practice, feng shui intends to align your environment (like your home or office) with who you are and where you're going. What is Feng Shui?įeng shui is an age-old Chinese belief that our homes are a reflection of ourselves. Through her signature mind-body-home awareness techniques, she helps clients establish balance in their lives. Principal constituents of the plants are tannin and bitter and astringent principles which were used in infusions for various ills.Įlaine Goodale Eastman (1863 - 1953) wrote a wonderful poem about Goldenrods - read it here.Marianne Gordon is a certified feng shui expert who consults worldwide. #7) reports on European use of various Goldenrod species. flexicaulis, the root was chewed for toothache. #5) reported that the Chippewa used various species of Goldenrod for treating fevers, colds, ulcers and boils. Here in Minnesota, Frances Densmore (Ref. Medicinal Lore: The genus Solidago has several species, including flexicaulis, whose leaves and tops and roots were used by natives for various disorders. There are 18 species of Solidago known in the wild in Minnesota. In Canada it is known from Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward. is from the central plains eastward excepting MI and FL.
The plant is native to Minnesota in many counties except those of the SW, the far north and Cook. Susan Wilkins added plants in 2009, '11, '12 and '13. It was listed on Martha Crone's 1951 inventory of plants in the Garden at that time. She added more plants in 1921, sourced from Eau Claire, WI, and more in 1932. Eloise Butler catalogued it on Septemusing an old botanical name S. Notes: Zigzag Gldenrod is indigenous to the Garden area. scrophulariifolia.Ĭomparisons: This woodland goldenrod with the zigzag stem and the broad, egg shaped toothed leaves should not be confusing with any other, although a cursory glance may confuse the flower raceme with Agrimony. In earlier times many no longer accepted names had been applied to this species - two such names were S. The author name for the plant classification from 1753, 'L.' is for Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish botanist and the developer of the binomial nomenclature of modern taxonomy. The genus name is from the Latin solidare, as the plants of this genus were known to "make whole." (see bottom of page for medicinal lore).
Names: The species name, flexicaulis, means "flexible" and refers to the stem's angles. The root system has many short rhizomes and a woody caudex. Habitat: Zigzag Goldenrod likes a shady to partially sunny area, thus most will be found along path edges and in dry to moist woodland openings. Seeds of Solidago usually require 60 days of cold stratification and light for germination. Seed: Seeds are a short, narrowly cone-shaped cypsela, 1 to 2 mm long, and hairy with a white fluffy pappus for wind distribution. A single leafy bract subtends each flower head. They are green and narrow with the inner much longer than the outer. The phyllaries around the outside of the flower head are in three series. The long style has appendages somewhat triangular in shape. The five stamens and single style are exserted from the corolla tube. These surround 4 to 8 disc florets that are bisexual and fertile these have yellow corolla tubes with 5 lobes, the apex of the lobes folded outwards and downwards.
Arrays can have 25 to 250 heads.įlowers: Each composite flower head has 1 to 5 yellow outer ray florets which are pistillate only and fertile. The raceme is decidedly angled just like the lower stem. The floral array is a a raceme of stalked flowers atop the stem and additional flower racemes rising from the upper leaf axils. The basal rosette will be present at flowering time. The underside of the lower leaves have dense short hair and longer hair on the veins. Upper leaves within the floral array are more linear with less pronounced teeth. Leaves: Lower basal leaves are oval to egg shaped with sharp teeth, narrowed at the base to a short winged stalk and with a pointed tip. The common name refers to the zigzags of the upper stem. It is hairy in the floral array and mostly smooth below. Zigzag Goldenrod is a native erect perennial forb, growing on leafy stems from 8 inches to 4 feet high that are sometimes branched within the floral array.
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