Black-Eyed Susan 1
by Bruce Bley
Title
Black-Eyed Susan 1
Artist
Bruce Bley
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Eastern and Central United States. It is one of a number of plants with the common name black-eyed Susan. Other common names for this plant include: brown-eyed Susan, brown Betty, gloriosa daisy, golden Jerusalem, Poorland daisy, yellow daisy, and yellow ox-eye daisy.
The plant also is a traditional Native American medicinal herb in several tribal nations; believed in those cultures to be a remedy, among other things, for colds, flu, infection, swelling and for snake bite (although not all parts of the plant are edible).
It is an upright annual (sometimes biennial or perennial) growing 30-100 cm (12-39 in) tall by 30-45 cm (12-18 in) wide. It has alternate, mostly basal leaves 10-18 cm long, covered by coarse hair, with stout branching stems and daisy-like, composite flowers appearing in late summer and early autumn. In the species, the flowers are up to 10 cm (4 in) in diameter, with yellow ray-florets circling conspicuous brown or black, dome-shaped disc-florets. However, extensive breeding has produced a range of sizes and colors, including oranges, reds and browns.
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August 20th, 2016
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Comments (13)
Carrie Goeringer
This is so great! Will miss you on the Macro group, but you will contribute I hope. LF
Bruce Bley replied:
Thank you for the nice comment on my work, Carrie. I will miss the group also, but will till contribute my work.
Bruce Bley
Frank, I am very grateful for the feature in the group "Chicagoland Art Gallery". Thank you for the honor.
Bruce Bley
Marie, I want to thank you for the feature in the group "Must Create Art". I truly appreciate the honor.
Frank J Casella
Bruce -- CONGRATULATIONS!! Your beautiful artwork has been Featured by the - CHICAGOLAND ART GALLERY - group on Fine Art America, a PIXELS Company! Thank you for sharing it !!
Bruce Bley replied:
Frank, I am very grateful for the feature in the group "CHICAGOLAND ART GALLERY". Thank you for the honor and opportunity to be a part of this group.
Bruce Bley
Romulad, Thank you for the feature in the group "Arts Fantastic World". I appreciate the honor.
Bruce Bley
Doug. I want to thank you for the feature in the group "Macro Marvels". I truly appreciate the honor.
Bruce Bley
Kim, I want to thank you again for the feature in the group "Floral Photography And Art". I sincerely appreciate the honor.