Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Rudbeckia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Rudbeckia hirta var. hirta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rudbeckia hirta var. hirta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-61-006:
Rudbeckia hirta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Woodland Black-eyed Susan
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Forb
Annual/Biennial/Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Blackish-purple
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Blackish
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
Rudbeckia hirta var. hirta FAMILY Asteraceae
Woodland Black-eyed Susan
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Rudbeckia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm0406e_09
June Greenville County SC
Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
The leaves of this hairy plant may be entire or toothed, but not lobed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm0506g_2324
June Oconee County SC
Roadside
Stem covered with tiny barbs, thus uncomfortable for insects to climb, per Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
JK Marlow jkm140603_412
June Pickens County SC
SC Botanical Garden
Cauline lvs lanceolate, ovate or pandurate, and petiolate or sometimes sessile, per Flora of North America.
JK Marlow jkm140615_034b
June Greenville County SC
Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
Prongs of Y-shaped styles slender & pointed, vs. short & blunt in R. fulgida, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Kevin Adams kcarudbeckiahirta_30
June Blount County TN
10 or more sterile rays, yellow sometimes shading to orange, to 1.5" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Ben Geer Keys bgk1276_b
July
Receptacle dark purple or brown, decidedly ovoid or hemispheric, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Bobbie L Holt blh1276_a
July Anderson County SC
Rays yellow, 3.5-5cm long, often red at base; disc flowers blackish-purple, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm080705_025
July Swain County NC
Involucral bracts linear to lanceolate, acute, spreading pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Black-eyed Susan and Cutleaf Coneflower
JK Marlow jkm090707_022
July Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands
Disk flowers fertile; prongs of the Y-shaped styles slender and pointed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm090707_026
July Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands
Disk florets bloom inward in successive circles of pollinating florets, per Book of Field and Roadside.