Zigzag Goldenrod Traditional Geocache

Zigzag Goldenrod turned out to be what I had mistakenly thought was Lowrie's Aster. The cache is moved a bit closer to the plant and I hope will be easier to find. This is a new cache and find.

Zigzag Goldenrod

Solidago flexicaulis, the broadleaved goldenrod, or zigzag goldenrod,is a North American species of herbaceous perennial plants  in the sunflower family sunflower family.

It is native to the eastern and central parts of the United States and Canada, from Nova Scotia west to Ontario and the Dakotas, and south as far as Alabama and Louisiana. It grows in a variety of habitats including mesic upland forests, well drained floodplain forests, seepage swamp hummocks, and rocky woodlands.

The plant is called the "zigzag goldenrod" because the thin, wiry stem zigs and zags back and forth, changing direction at each node (leaf attachment point).

The plant sometimes as many as 250 small yellow flower heads, some at the end of the stem, others in the axils of the leaves.

The leaves are very broad, almost round, but with an elongated tip at the end and large teeth along the edges.

The cache is a tied in, camoed, "micro" pill bottle, the one you push hard to open and close. Please BYOP and keep track of the log, rubber band and plastic bag, so you can put it back the way you found it.