Rudbeckia laciniata L. - Wild Golden Glow


 

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Rudbeckia laciniata - (image 1 of 3)

 

Taxonomy

Family: Asteraceae

Habitat

Shaded to partly shaded floodplains and stream margins. Calcareous springy places.

Associates

 

 Distribution

Widespread

Morphology

Large perennial herb from a woody base. Stems glabrous or glaucous. Leaves large, petiolate, some of them pinnatified or trilobed. Disk yellow to gray; rays yellow, drooping; pappus short, toothed.

Notes

Flowers mid July to early November

Wetland indicator: Facultative Wetland +

Blooms later than most other members of this genus. The plant shown here isn't quite there yet.

Bibliography

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.

The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

 

Swink, F. and G. Wilhelm. 1994. Plants of the Chicago Region.
Indiana Academy of Science. The Morton Arboretum. Lisle, Illinois.
 


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