Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
Yellow, orange and red flowers from June into October, worked by ligated furrow bees and pure green sweat bees. Silvery Checkerspot caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 67 of Arkansas’s 75 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 3 ft to 4 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange and red, Jun to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Roots; wants 10 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Silvery Checkerspot
- Caterpillars
- 19 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 56 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus), Pure green sweat bee (Augochlora pura), Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens), Mining bee (Andrena rudbeckiae)
Grows well with
Calico Aster
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
New England Aster
Foxglove Beardtongue
Robin's-plantain
Facts from the Quercus record for Rudbeckia hirta.