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Answer for the clue "Note former cane plant with yellow flowers ", 9 letters:
goldenrod

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
goldenrod \gold"en*rod`\, golden-rod \gold"en-rod`\(g[=o]ld"'n*r[o^]d`), n. (Bot.) A tall herb ( Solidago Virga-aurea ), bearing small yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago . Golden-rod ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from golden + rod .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Solidago , commonly called goldenrods , is a genus of about 100 to 120 species of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae . Most are herbaceous perennial species found in open areas such as meadows, prairies, and savannas. They are mostly native ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of a golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant. n. 1 Any tall-stemmed plant principally from genus ''Solidago'' (also (taxlink Oligoneuron genus noshow=1)), usually with clusters of small yellow flowers. 2 A golden-yellow colour, like that ...

Usage examples of goldenrod.

Experiments with line-rearing of bees, discovered that a dysone made from goldenrod would speed the development of bees, Administered in larger quantities than the bees would receive from nature, it produced giant larvae that failed to mature.

She went to the fencerow and broke off stems of goldenrod and aster and filled the pail with them.

Just as things come ripe, the creatures always set their webs, sewn with perfect zigzag seams, across the swathes of grass, jewelweed, goldenrod, milkweed, and burdock behind the sagging barn.

Drawing their palms over grass, goldenrod, and white alyssum, they walked toward the common line, fourteen of them, their yellow silk cassocks whipped by wind and fiery convections, the five snakes about each of their throats outstretched, like the spokes of a candelabra, searching every direction.

Countryside covered with pink wild roses, blazing goldenrod and waving prairie grass suddenly turned into perfect sections of bluegrass and gray pavement sprinkled with plastic swing sets and Big Wheels.

The Troupe was cam~ west of El Reno on Interstate 40, an area of red cliifs of crumbling sandstone, red soil, creek bottoms full of pecans and as p ens and festooned with honeysuckle, a place of goldenrod and winecup and coneflowers and trailing purple legume.

There was alpine fireweed, stonecrop, bog orchids and purple asters, goldenrod and brown-eyed Susan, all flourishing and bright in a landscape that was predominantly gray and leprous white.

The place was a maze, a rat warren of halfbuilt stores and shops, discarded lengths of pipe, piles of cinderblock and boards, shacks and rusted Quonset huts, all overgrown with scrubby junipers and laurels and witch-grass and blue spruce, blackberry and blackthorn, devil's paintbrush and denuded goldenrod.

Goldenrod, purple bull thistles, and lacy wild carrot swayed in the breezes above the tall grasses.

She turned toward the open French window, where bees hummed over a herbaceous border of goldenrod and phlox.

Carrying a small pack on his back and the new hive frames on his shoulder, Charlie is gesturing to the left, pointing out the honey plants for this late in the season: clusters of sweet clover and spikes of goldenrod.

It's late in the season when I fly up, the August fields awash with milkweed, goldenrod, and great purple sweeps of joe-pye weed.

The harvesting of milkweed and goldenrod are discussed below, in their own sections, while guayule and Russian dandelion are relegated to Appendices.

In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut.

I'd noticed a flower that looked a bit like a stunted goldenrod in the area where the sheep were grazing, however, and some succulents sort of like bloodroot.