Abstract The essential oil was obtained at yield of 0.37% by hydrodistillation from fresh leaf tissue of Solidago decurrens Lour collected from Zhejiang Province, China. GC and GC/MS analysis identified 33 components, representing 90.4% of the leaf oil. The main components were δ-elemene (30.8%), β-elemene (6.4%), β-caryophyllene (15.4%), α-humulene (3.2%), δ-selinene (2.4%), germacrene D (4.5%), and ledene oxide-(II) (13.1%).