Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rudbeckia laciniata var. humilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Rudbeckia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
(?) INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rudbeckia laciniata var. digitata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Rudbeckia laciniata var. humilis
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-61-001?:
Rudbeckia laciniata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Blue Ridge Cutleaf Coneflower
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JK Marlow jkm0408c_31
August Transylvania County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm0408c_34
August Transylvania County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District
Basal and lower stem leaves 1-5 lobed, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm0408d_11
August Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm0408d_12
August Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm0408d_13
August Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Disc almost globose or hemispheric; rays 3-4cm long, often reflexed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0408d_20
August Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Disc florets bisexual and fertile; corollas yellow to yellowish green, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm130927_613
September Jackson County NC
Involucral bracts lanceolate to oblanceolate, essentially glabrous, acute, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Black-eyed Susan and Cutleaf Coneflower
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JK Marlow jkm140906_305
September Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm140906_306
September Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm140906_308
September Jackson County NC
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Steve Marlow snm140907_059
September Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm121006_265
October Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
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JK Marlow jkm121006_266
October Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rudbeckia laciniata var. humilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
(?) INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rudbeckia laciniata var. digitata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Rudbeckia laciniata var. humilis
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-61-001?:
Rudbeckia laciniata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
2567
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas
Documented growing wild in - NC SC
Common
Look for it in seeps, bog edges, brookbanks, moist forests, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p165?
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p118?
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p121?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p321?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p371?
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p433?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p189?