Definition of Genus Rudbeckia

1. Noun. North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Rudbeckia

genus Rivina
genus Rivulus
genus Robinia
genus Roccella
genus Roccus
genus Rodolia
genus Romneya
genus Roridula
genus Rorippa
genus Rosa
genus Rosellinia
genus Rosmarinus
genus Roystonea
genus Rubia
genus Rubus
genus Rudbeckia (current term)
genus Rumex
genus Rumohra
genus Rupicapra
genus Rupicola
genus Ruptiliocarpon
genus Ruscus
genus Russula
genus Ruta
genus Rutilus
genus Rynchops
genus Rypticus
genus Sabal
genus Sabbatia
genus Sabinea

Literary usage of Genus Rudbeckia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"... genus Rudbeckia, but I have only adopted one, viz. Echinacea, which embraces all the purple-flowered kinds ; and I have retained all the yellow-flowered ..."

2. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"... was,oy the latter, commemorated in the genus Rudbeckia. . At this period, the plants of our own country began to excite the. curiosity of scientific ..."

3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... 2 is a disk-floret. CONE FLOWERS Natural Order COMPOSITE. genus Rudbeckia RUDBECKIA (named by Linnaeus in honour of Professor Olaf ..."

4. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1854)
"... who preceded Linnaeus as professor of Botany in Upsal, was, by the latter, commemorated in the genus Rudbeckia. At this period the plants of our own ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1912)
"... them under the genus, Rudbeckia. It thus happens that we have three synonyms for the plant under consideration, namely: Rudbeckia pa/lit/a, Nuttall. ..."

6. Iowa Horticulture by Iowa State Horticultural Society (1908)
"The specimen of the genus Rudbeckia, or cone flower, are all native of North America, and one species, Rudbeckia laciniata, has come into prominence during ..."

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