Brown-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia triloba
Yellow flowers from August into October, worked by ligated furrow bees and pure green sweat bees. Silvery Checkerspot caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 9 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 4 ft to 5 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Aug to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Silvery Checkerspot
- Caterpillars
- 15 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
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Swamp Azalea
Fragrant Sumac
Calico Aster
Swamp Rosemallow
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Rudbeckia triloba.