Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

by Margaret Roscoe

Pl. 36.

Plate 37. Rudbeckia hirta.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.

RUDBECKIA hirta.

Hairy Rudbeckia.

Class and Order.—Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea.

Syn. Rudbeckia hirta. Pursh. Flo. N. A. page 574.

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Root Fibrous—stem erect, branched, grooved. Radical leaves broad, lanceolate, cauline leaves sessile, unequal, margins undulate peduncles one flowered, terminal—calyx many segments, lanceolate, obtuse—corolla bright yellow—radiated florets, linear, lanceolate recurved, barren—florets of the disk fertile—whole plant hairy.