Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Rudbeckia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Rudbeckia hirta var. hirta
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-61-006?:
Rudbeckia hirta FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rudbeckia bicolor
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rudbeckia longipes
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rudbeckia sericea
COMMON NAME:
Weedy Black-eyed Susan
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JK Marlow jkm210603_0935
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
Leaves pubescent like the stem, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm210610_1177
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
8-16 dark yellow ray florets & a domed center disk of tiny brownish-purple tubular florets, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
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JK Marlow jkm210610_1182
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
Cauline blades spatulate, oblanceolate, or broadly linear, per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Rudbeckia hirta var. hirta
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-61-006?:
Rudbeckia hirta
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rudbeckia bicolor
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rudbeckia longipes
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rudbeckia sericea
2713
Forb
Annual/Biennial/Perennial
Habitat: Roadsides, fields, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Blackish-purple
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers sterile
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Blackish
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p239?
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p179?
- Book of Field and Roadside (Eastman, 2003) p117?
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p162?
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p164?
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p165
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p391?
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p542
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p205?
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p121?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p271?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p320?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p370?
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p432?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p189?
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