1279

Forb
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Uncommon in GA

Look for it in wet pine savannas, 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 (11/30/12):
Rudbeckia nitida   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rudbeckia nitida   FAMILY Asteraceae