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Rudbeckia purpurea
Rudbeckia purpurea - Purple Rudbeckia
Class and Order
Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea
Generic Character
Receptaculum paleaceum, conicum. Pappus margine quadri-dentato.
Calyx duplici ordine squamarum
Specific Character and Synonyms
RUDBECKIA purpurea foliis lanceolato-ovatis alternis
indivisis, radii petalis bifidis. Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 651.
Sp. Pl. p. 1280.
DRACUNCULUS virginianus latifolius, petalis florum longissimis
purpurascentibus. Moris. Hist. 3. p. 42. f. 6. t. 9. f. 1.
This species differs from the other plants of the genus, in the
color of its outermost petals, which are long, narrow, purple, and
pendulous, and not unaptly resemble small pieces of red tape.
Notwithstanding it is a native of the warm climates Carolina and
Virginia, it succeeds very well with us in an open border: but, as
Mr. Miller very justly observes, it will always be prudent to
shelter two or three plants under a common hot-bed frame in winter,
to preserve the kind, because in very severe winters, those in the
open air are sometimes killed. It flowers in July. As it rarely
ripens its seeds with us, the only mode of propagating it, is by
parting the roots; but in that way the plant does not admit of much
increase.
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