2568

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in GA & SC (uncommon in NC) (an endemic)

Look for it on streamsides, in seepages, per Weakley's Flora

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...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!

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p240?
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p121?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p321?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p371?
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p189?

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rudbeckia laciniata var. digitata   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. digitata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-61-001?:
Rudbeckia laciniata   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Rudbeckia laciniata var. laciniata