Wordless Wednesday: Goldenrod
Almost wordless: I usually see Goldenrod in the prairie in large numbers creating waves of bright yellow. These two plants were in the woods, and I liked the way a small shaft of morning light illuminated them.
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How can something so pretty cause so much sneezing?
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That was my thought exactly! Achoo!!!
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Sneezing for me too. And scratchy eyes. This was my first walk in the prairie in several weeks and I’m still suffering for it two days later!
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The main bloom in my wildflower garden!
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I love goldenrod, but it doesn’t love me back. *sneeze*
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Same here. And swollen, scratchy eyes. It seems like it gets worse every year!
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My daughter was just saying how pretty she thinks goldenrod is. This picture totally proves her point.
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A bit of trivia: it’s not goldenrod that affects allergies, it’s ragweed. They bloom at the same time and goldennrod’s pollen falls to the ground while ragweed pollen (a shorter plant) rises and *floats* — and that’s what makes us sneeze. But because it’s the tall wands of goldenrod we see, so we blame IT.
Poor misunderstood goldenrod.
Doncha love it even more now??
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Ragweed is definitely a problem for me. Good to know I can stop blaming the Goldenrod now.
An aside – the female Cottonwood tree gets all the allergy blame too because she drops the fuzzy bits, but it’s really the male and his invisible pollen that causes all the trouble. I know, because I have a male tree in my yard!
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