Zigzag Goldenrod is a native perennial in Wisconsin. It grows from two to three feet tall. It has dense colonies with columns of fall-blooming yellow flowers. It has upright unbranched stems and toothed, broad-ovate leaves. The leaves are two to five inches long and one to four inches across. They are ovate to lanceolate shaped with coarsely toothed edges. It prefers rich deciduous woodlands, often on protected wooded slopes. (SF)