in Thoreau’s Journal:

The Solidago nemoralis [gray goldenrod] now yellows the dry fields with its recurved standard a little more than a foot high, marching to the Holy Land, a countless host of crusaders. That field in the woods near Well Meadow, where I once thought of squatting, is full of them.

Photo: August 23, 2020 at Chicks Corner, Sandwich, NH