BRISTLY CONEFLOWER

Hairy Rudbeckia

Rudbeckia hirta

Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae]

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status
statusZalien
flower
flower8yellow
inner
inner8multicolour
inner
inner8beetroot
inner
inner8brown
inner
inner8black
inner
inner8yellow
morph
morph8actino
petals
petalsZMany petalsZ12
stem
stem8round
toxicity
toxicityZmedium
contact
contactZlowish

22nd July 2013, a garden, Old Clough La, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. Photo: © RWD
An erect annual or short-lived perennial to 70cm high. Flowers golden yellow. Petals about 12 in number.


22nd July 2013, a garden, Old Clough La, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. Photo: © RWD
Flowers have golden yellow ray-florets and a domed maroon central set of disc-florets. Petals about 12 in number. Flowers very large, between 3.5 to 10cm across.


22nd July 2013, a garden, Old Clough La, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. Photo: © RWD
Partially open flower to left. Petals (ray-florets) gradually reflex backwards into a rough shuttle-cock shape.


22nd July 2013, a garden, Old Clough La, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. Photo: © RWD
Some disc florets have opened around the periphery and displaying their tips of bright-yellow pollen. Stems angular or ribbed, sometimes roundis, always with long white hairs emerging from brown glands at the base.


22nd July 2013, a garden, Old Clough La, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. Photo: © RWD
Phyllaries are in two or three rows, initially roughly upright, fold back as the flower opens.


22nd July 2013, a garden, Old Clough La, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. Photo: © RWD


22nd July 2013, a garden, Old Clough La, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. Photo: © RWD
Leaves lanceolate, hairy, without stalks and not opposite each other.


22nd July 2013, a garden, Old Clough La, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. Photo: © RWD
Stems are covered in long white hairs and tipped brown. Leaves in similar long white hairs but without the brown glands.


Not to be semantically confused with : Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) [a plant with similar-sounding name], nor with garden flowers belonging to the Genus Echinacea which also have the same common name of 'Coneflowers' and which have a much-more pronounced upside-down shuttlecock appearance with reflexed ray florets and central domed disc florets but which are usually lilac in colour and have no wild presence in the UK [both these belong to the same Dandelion & Daisy Family (Asteraceae) as Rudbeckia].

Lookee-Likees : Coneflowers belonging to the Echinacea genus (mentioned above) which have no wild presence in the UK, being garden flowers only. But whereas Rudbeckia genus flowers are mainly yellow/orange, Echinacea genus flowers are mainly on the mauve-ish/lilac side of the colour temperature, but otherwise the shape can be similar (that of an upside-down shuttlecock with a conical display of reflexed ray florets and a central bulging dome of disc florets).

Flowers belonging to the Helenium genus (such as Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnal) another garden plant which escapes into the wild, is also in the Asteraceae family) are also shaped like upside-down shuttlecocks, and moreover also have a yellow corolla, but smaller, like Bristly Coneflower. The leaves are similar too.

There are very many horticulturally generated variations of Bristly Coneflower, one with the common name of Black-Eyed-Susan (Rudbeckia hirta var. angustifolia).

Bristly Coneflower is a garden plant that can escape into the wild, usually onto rough ground and waste places. The specimens here are yet to escape...


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Distribution
 family8Daisy & Dandelion family8Asteraceae
 BSBI maps
genus8Rudbeckia
Rudbeckia
(Coneflowers)

BRISTLY CONEFLOWER

Hairy Rudbeckia

Rudbeckia hirta

Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae]