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rudbeckia |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rudbeckia \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Rudbeckia n : North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads [syn: {Rudbeckia}, {genus Rudbeckia}]
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