These late-blooming plants native to North America help feed butterflies — especially monarchs-— at a crucial point.

Fall blooming native plants, like the 2024 Cape Fear Native Plant Festival Plant of the Year, Goldenrod (Solidago spp.), provide a much-needed resource for pollinators as well as a pop of sunny ...

“Most people plant them in the summer when they have ... “To my knowledge we haven’t really survived a lot of the trees in Dusty Goldenrod,” Weeber said. “Spit balling, we potentially ...