Definitions for: Rudbeckia

[n] North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads

Webster (1913) Definition: Rud*beck"i*a, n. [NL. So named after Olaf Rudebeck,
a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.)
A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of
perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a
hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical
chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species,
exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed
Susan, is a common weed in meadows.

Synonyms: genus Rudbeckia

See Also: aster family, Asteraceae, asterid dicot genus, black-eyed Susan, Compositae, coneflower, cutleaved coneflower, double gold, family Asteraceae, family Compositae, golden glow, hortensia, Rudbeckia hirta, Rudbeckia laciniata, Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia, Rudbeckia serotina

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