2713

Forb
Annual/Biennial/Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it on roadsides, in fields, per Weakley's Flora

To see a detailed map, click here

 

...Variable

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Blackish
Achene

 

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

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p239?
• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p179?
• Book of Field and Roadside p117?
• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p162?
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p164?
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p165
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p391?
• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p205?
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p121?
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p271?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p320?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p370?
• Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p432?
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p189?

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-61-006?:
Rudbeckia hirta   FAMILY Asteraceae