Chapman's Goldenrod

This forms clumps but does not form large clones, which means it will not take over a garden.



Wildflower garden

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Songbirds such as goldfinches and sparrows eat the seeds, and mice and deer browse the foliage and flowers. 

Provides cover for many small animals including but not limited to lizzards, skinks, snakes, and mice.

Typically a plant of mesic to dry flatwoods and scrubby flatwoods. Can be ruderal.

• Showy flowers
• Used for nectar by butterflies.
• Attracts a wide variety of pollinators, especially bees.  Documented bee visitors include Colletes maizdibzclaris, Perdita graenicheri, Agapostelnon splendens, Augochlorellaaurata,Az~gochloropsis metallica, A. sumnptuosa, Dialictus coreopsis, D. nytnphalis, D. placidensis, Halictus ligatus, Sphecodes heraclei, Dianthidiz~ln floridiense, Megachile albitarsis, M. tnendica, M. texana and Apis mellifera (honeybee) (Deyrup et al. 2002).  The goldenrod soldier beetle (a.k.a. leatherwing beetle(, Chauliognathus pensylvanicus is a goldenrod pollinator (FL Wildflower Foundation).
• Is a larval food for some lepidopterans, mostly moths.