Plant of the Week

Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia serotina Nutt.
scientific name, 2008
Rudbeckia hirta L.
other common names: brown Betty, brown daisy, brown-eyed Susan, coneflower, donkeybead, English bull’s eye, poor-land daisy, yellow daisy, yellow Jerusalem, yellow ox-eye daisy, deer eye (Cherokee)
Rudbeckia: named in honor of two Rudbecks, father and son botanists, who preceded Linnaeus at the University in Uppsala, Sweden
Serotina: from Latin serum, meaning “late”
Daisy family: Asteraceae (Compositae)

Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition