I would make a chart of our life,
know why just this circle of creatures completes the world.
Henry Thoreau, April 18, 1852
The blue-stemmed and white
goldenrod survive – push up
and blossom anew.
May 30. Blue-stemmed goldenrod is already a foot high. May 30, 1857
August 24. Blue-stemmed goldenrod, apparently a few days in some places. The goldenrods which I have observed in bloom this year are (I do not remember the order exactly): (1) stricta, (2) lanceolata, (3) arguta (?), (4) петоralis, (5) bicolor, (6) odora, (7) altissima, (8) ulmifolia (?), (9) cæsia . . . The cæsia ( 9th ) just begun. August 24, 1853
August 27. Blue-stemmed goldenrod, a day or two. August 27, 1854
September 3, 2023
September 18. Solidago caesia in prime at Bittern Cliff Wood. September 18, 1856
September 20, 2025
September 23. A blue-stemmed goldenrod, its stem and leaves red. September 23, 1852
September 23. I see everywhere in the shady yew wood those pretty round-eyed fungus-spots on the upper leaves of the blue-stemmed goldenrod, contrasting with the few bright-yellow flowers above them, -- yellowish-white rings (with a slate-colored centre), surrounded by green and then dark. September 23, 1860
September 30. All the honey-bees we saw were on the blue-stemmed golden-rod (Solidago cæsia), which is late, lasts long, which emitted a sweet agreeable fragrance, not on the asters. September 30, 1852
October 19. The most prominent of the few lingering solidagos which I have noticed since the 8th is the S. caesia, though that is very scarce indeed now, hardly survives at all. October 19, 1856
October 20. Canada snapdragon, tansy, white goldenrod, blue-stemmed goldenrod. Aster undulatus, autumnal dandelion, tall buttercup, yarrow, mayweed. October 20, 1852
October 22. The blue-stemmed goldenrod. October 22, 1852
October 23. The blue-stemmed, and also the white, solidago on Walden bank. October 23, 1853
October 26. The blue-stemmed and white goldenrod apparently survive till winter, – push up and blossom anew. October 26, 1852
November 2. The leaves which are not withered, whose tints are still fresh and bright, are now remarked in sheltered places. Plucked quite a handsome nosegay from the side of Heywood's Peak, - white and blue-stemmed goldenrods, asters (undulatus and ?). November 2, 1852
November 10. In the path below the Cliff, I see some blue-stemmed goldenrod turned yellow as well as purple. November 10, 1858
November 23. The following seen within a fortnight: a late three-ribbed goldenrod of some kind, blue-stemmed goldenrod (these two perhaps within a week), Potentilla argentea, Aster undulatus, Ranunculus repens, Bidens connata, shepherd's-purse, etc., etc. November 23, 1852
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Blue-stemmed Goldenrod (solidago caesia)
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality."
~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2025
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