Rudbeckia grandiflora

(Sweet) C. C. Gmelin ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle

in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 5: 556. 1836.

Common names: Largeflower or rough coneflower
Endemic
Basionym: Centrocarpha grandiflora Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard., ser. 2, 1: plate 87. 1831
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 56. Mentioned on page 53.

Perennials, to 120 cm (roots fibrous, caudices often woody). Stems proximally glabrous or sparsely hairy (hairs spreading), distally strigose (hairs ascending). Leaves: blades elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate (± conduplicate, not lobed), bases cuneate to rounded, margins entire or remotely serrate, apices acute, faces strigose, abaxially glanddotted; basal petiolate, 10–35 × 2–11 cm; cauline petiolate (proximal) to nearly sessile (distal), 4–30 × 1.5–9 cm. Heads mostly borne singly. Phyllaries to 15 mm (strigose and glanddotted). Receptacles hemispheric to ovoid; paleae 5–6.5 mm, (apical margins glabrous) acuminate-cuspidate, awn-tipped, abaxial tips sparsely strigose. Ray-florets 12–25; laminae elliptic to obovate (reflexed), 20–50 × 5–10 mm, abaxially hairy and glanddotted. Discs 10–30 × 15–25 mm. Disc-florets 200–800+; corollas greenish yellow basally and in lobes, otherwise maroon, 3.5–5 mm; style-branches ca. 1.8 mm, apices obtuse. Cypselae 2–3 mm; pappi coroniform, to 0.5 mm.

Distribution

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Ark., Ga., Ill., Kans., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Ohio, Okla., Tex., Mostly c, e, and s United States

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Stems glabrous or sparsely hairy proximally and hairy distally (hairs ascending, mostly shorter than 0.5 mm) Rudbeckia grandiflora var. alismifolia
1 Stems hairy (hairs spreading proximally, ascending distally, ca. 1 mm) Rudbeckia grandiflora var. grandiflora
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not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
connate +  and distinct +
obtuse;acute +
subequal +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
corymbiform +  and paniculiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Lowell E. Urbatsch +  and Patricia B. Cox +
(Sweet) C. C. Gmelin ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (11 cm110 mm <br />0.11 m <br />) +
cuneate +  and rounded +
Centrocarpha grandiflora +
compound +  and simple +
ovate;lanceolate;ovate;lanceolate;elliptic +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
petiolate +  and nearly sessile +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +  and 9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br /> (?) +
Largeflower or rough coneflower +
maroon +  and greenish yellow +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
hairy +  and glabrous +
flattened +, fusiform-terete +  and obpyramidal +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
15mm;25mm +
Ark. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Kans. +, Ky. +, La. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, Tex. +, Mostly c +, e +  and and s United States +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
discoid +  and radiate +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
fusiform;turbinate or broadly campanulate +
20mm;50mm +
elliptic +  and obovate +
5mm;10mm +
sessile +  and petiolate +
not glaucous +
greenish;yellowish +
deltate +  and lance-linear +
serrate +  and entire +
2-carpellate +
acuminate-cuspidate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.65 cm6.5 mm <br />0.0065 m <br />) +
persistent +
0 +  and 2 +
coroniform +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
3 +  and 21 +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
pitted +  and smooth +
hemispheric;ovoid +
connate +  and distinct +
2 +  and 5 +
exalbuminous +
strigose +, hairy +  and glabrous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Compositae +
Rudbeckia grandiflora +
Rudbeckia sect. Rudbeckia +
species +
cylindric +
entire +  and toothed +
100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br /> (200 cm2,000 mm <br />2 m <br />) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (200 cm2,000 mm <br />2 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +