rudbeckia

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rud=beck=i=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

rudbeckia, n. [NL. So named after Olaf Rudebeck, a Swedish botanist.].

 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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rudbeckia, n. a composite garden plant of the genus Rudbeckia, native to N. America.

Etymology

mod.L f. O. Rudbeck, Sw. botanist d. 1740