4303

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare (a Southern Appalachian endemic)

Look for it on seepy mafic or limestone cliffs, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blackish
Achene

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Rudbeckia triloba var. beadlei   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rudbeckia triloba var. pinnatiloba   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISSPELLED) Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Rudbeckia triloba var. beadleyi

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-61-005?:
Rudbeckia triloba   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Rudbeckia beadlei