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Rudbeckia triloba
Also called Brown Eyed Susan, Thin Leaved Coneflower, Thin Leaf Coneflower, Three Lobe Coneflower, Brown Eyed Coneflower, Many Flowered Coneflower, Three Lobed Coneflower
Browneyed Susan is a hairy, bushy, biennial or short-lived perennial with yellow daisy-like flowers that have brown cones. Give it full sun and average to moist soil, and it will self-seed readily.
Rudbeckia triloba, the browneyed or brown-eyed susan, thin-leaved coneflower or three-leaved coneflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae with numerous, yellow, daisy-like flowers. It is native to the central and eastern United States and is often seen in old fields or along roads. It is also cultivated as an ornamental.
R. triloba is native in the United States from Utah to the west, Texas and Florida to the south, Minnesota to the north, and Massachusetts to the east. Habitats include disturbed ground, woodland borders, thickets, rocky slopes, and alongside roads and railways.
Dracopis · Orange coneflower · Blackeyed Susan · Cutleaf coneflower · Great coneflower · Coneflower
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rudbeckia triloba by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
