rough-stemmed

= -- This species is named the rough-stemmed boletus, in allusion to the rough appearance given to the stem from numerous dark brown or reddish dots or scales.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

Aster puniceus (rough-stemmed aster), Pine Stream.

The Maine Woods 1858

At its base, where the tide rarely falls, we find two varieties of _Lobularia digitata_, dead man's hand, the orange colored and the pale, with a species of sertularia; and the characteristic vegetable is the rough-stemmed tangle, or cuvy.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

September 2008 (click on image to enlarge) rough-stemmed goldenrod, mine doesn't seem to have the typical pattern to its flowers, so it might be something else.

Cold Climate Gardening 2008