1279

Forb
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Uncommon in GA

Look for it in wet pine savannas, adjacent roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers sterile
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p180
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p164
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p121

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Rudbeckia nitida   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rudbeckia nitida   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Rudbeckia nitida var. nitida

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Rudbeckia glabra

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Rudbeckia nitida