in Thoreau’s Journal:

The rough golden rod, solidago altissima—a day or 2. I will call that sharply serrate narrow or linear (?) lanceolate leafed smooth stemmed very tall golden rod with a large broad dense pyramidal head of panicle drooping every way—which grows under the RR bank against Ebby Hubbards land the S. Arguta for the present. It has been out say 1 week or more.