Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Rudbeckia hirta
Rudbeckia hirta L.
Black-eyed Susan, Common Black-eyed Susan, Brown-eyed Susan, Blackeyed Susan
Asteraceae (Aster Family)
USDA Symbol: RUHI2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), AK (I), CAN (N)
Specimen & Label Data
Rudbeckia hirta
Brown -Eyed Susan
Asteraceae
Location: 35 m from Ira Lee Rd., at rear of vacant lot on W side of Barcom Court--Oakwell Farms.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun. Above average water. Alkaline, alluvial soil.
Description: Erect annual,to 50 cm tall; few branched below middle. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, sessile, pubescent, obscurely toothed, longer than broad. Peduncles about 1/3 height of plant. Involucre hemispheric. Ray flowers yellow w/minute brown spot basally on some, 5 x 15 cm tall, sterile. Disk brown, 1+ cm wide x 1.5 cm tall. Phyllaries in two rows, outer nearly equal rays.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 26, 1988
Specimen number: 350
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0555
Accession Date: Sep 28, 1993
Accession Number: 41
Annotations: SCXRB