Meaning of RUDBECKIA
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| | Definition: | | [n] North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads |
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| | Synonyms: | | genus Rudbeckia |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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