Roadsides, thickets, fencerows, borders of fields, forests (especially near old yards and cemeteries). First collected in 1891 in Washtenaw Co.

A native of mid-America, west of the Great Lakes, but widely cultivated for its yellow, spicy-fragrant flowers, and occasionally escaping.The current year’s twigs and petioles, even at maturity, are usually densely and finely whitish pubescent, and the leaves have varying densities of sessile yellow glands (especially when young), making it easier to recognize when the distinctive long-tubed yellow flowers are absent  One collection from Ottawa Co. has the hairs sparse, but is still quite glandular. Sometimes united with R. aureum Pursh. as var. villosum. DC.