What Does A Black Eyed Susan Look Like

They have a daisy like form and attract butterflies and bees due to their nectar and pollen offerings.

Black eyed susan is easily the most commonly known rudbeckia with its daisy like flowers with large seed heads. Five overlapping solid colored petals surround a brownish purple center tube that looks like a disk. The main variety of black eyed susan is easy to grow and can bloom almost all year long. It may also be dangerous to cats dogs and other household pets.

Rudbeckia hirta commonly called black eyed susan is a north american flowering plant in the sunflower family native to eastern and central north america and naturalized in the western part of the continent as well as in china it has now been found in all 10 canadian provinces and all 48 of the states in the contiguous united states. The flowers look daisy like at a distance. They are also perfect almost everywhere you plant them thanks to their sturdiness. Each flower has 8 to 16 florets that are 15 to 45 mm in length and 5 to 10 mm in width.

The central disk florets are typically brown though other cultivars display green disk florets and measure about 12 to 22 cm in diameter 1. This flower should also be kept away from small children who may chew it or get the sap on their skin they are poisonous to most. Black eyed susan flowers are borne singly or in corymb with hairy phyllaries. This flowering vine is as easy to care for as it is charming.