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Rudbeckia  n.  (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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... two bunches of the roots of Rudbeckia or Golden Glow. although it is what some might call a coarse flower yet its color is fine and very showy, and i know of no plant that blossoms so continuously as the Golden Glow, and it is a plant that never tires of growing and sending ...
— The Mayflower, January, 1905 • Various
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... coarse a flower to give a front place to. It belongs to the rear simply because of its aggressive qualities, and the intense effect of its strong, all-pervading color. You do not want a flower in the front row that, being given an inch, will straightway insist upon taking an ell. This the Rudbeckia will do, every time, if not promptly checked. It is an exceedingly valuable plant to cut from, as its flowers last for days, and light up a room like a great ...
— Amateur Gardencraft - A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover • Eben E. Rexford
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... peculiarly large specimen of the rudbeckia. Observe the deep purple of the cone, and the bright yellow of the petals. Here is another that grew hardly two feet away, in the grass near the fence where the rails and the blackberry bushes have shaded it. How small and ...
— Adventures In Contentment • David Grayson
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... as in a dream, mechanically plucking a stem of rudbeckia, only to toss it, presently, ...
— Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home • Bayard Taylor
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Words linked to "Rudbeckia" :   hortensia, golden glow, Asteraceae, Rudbeckia hirta, coneflower, asterid dicot genus, cutleaved coneflower, Rudbeckia laciniata, family Asteraceae, aster family, family Compositae, double gold, Compositae, Rudbeckia serotina, Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia, black-eyed Susan


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