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Rudbeckia
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What's The Definition Of Rudbeckia?
[n] North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads
Synonyms | Synonyms for Rudbeckia: genus Rudbeckia Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 Rudbeckia In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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