One of the most common native plants at the FWG. These plants form large clonal stands that shade out everything else, including dog-strangling vine (DSV). Their seeds are often eaten by chickadees, sparrows and finches, and if a goldenrod gall fly has laid an egg on the stem, around which a gall has formed, then squirrels, mice and woodpeckers will all tear these galls open to eat the larvae.