Folk with red, itchy eyes and runny noses in the fall in Ontario sometimes blame the easy-to-spot goldenrod for their discomfort. If they do, they are wrong. Goldenrod with its bright yellow clumps of small flowers is not the culprit; the guilty party is the much less easily spotted rag weed that also blooms in the fall and often grows nearby.
Why this error is still being made amazes me. I learned this fact when I was in public school in the mid '50s. Yet the CBC and other media regularly run articles informing folk of the truth. Maybe most folk do know the truth but it has become the fall go-to-story for the fall on a slow news day.
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