Exit78 Photo of the Day #62
Black-eyed Susan blossoms (rudbeckia hirta) around our yard, west-central Arkansas on the edge of the Ozarks, July 27, 2008 (Pentax K10D)
(Exit78 Photo of the Day #39 also featured black-eyed Susan blossoms and was shot the same day.)
Rudbeckia hirta (Wikipedia), commonly called black-eyed Susan, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family, native to Eastern and Central North America and naturalized in the Western part of the continent as well as in China. It has now been found in all 10 Canadian Provinces and all 48 of the states in the contiguous United States.
Series notes:
- The photos in this series are (usually) randomly selected from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Exit78 Photo of the Day.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.