There is a great swathe of this lovely native plant in the ash woods at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden. We tend to think of asters and goldenrods as being plants of open, sunny places, but there are many that grow in shaded conditions. For adding vivid colour to a dark corner of a garden, zigzag goldenrod is a good plant to use. Once established it will spread relatively slowly to create the kind of large stand you see here. It, along with the next plant, white snakeroot, is another native species that deserves to be better known.