Almost Perfect Black-Eyed Susan Flower
by Reid Callaway
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Almost Perfect Black-Eyed Susan Flower
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Reid Callaway
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Photograph - Photography
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Almost Perfect.....By Reid Callaway
Black-Eyed Susan Flower
Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed-susan, is a North American species of flowering plants in the sunflower family, native to the 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.
Rudbeckia hirta 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.
Rudbeckia hirta is the state flower of Maryland.
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 (topically, by poultice) for snake bite (although not all parts of the plant are edible.
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September 22nd, 2015
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Reid Callaway
Thank you Lisa Phillips for featuring my image in our FAA group "Thoughts of Flowers"! 1/17/2016
Reid Callaway
Thank you Dan Marinescu for featuring my artwork in our group... Premium FAA Artists! 12/26/2015
Reid Callaway
Thank you for your kind words Lynn Hopwood and for making this image one of your personal Favorites!
Reid Callaway
Thanks so much Dora Sofia Caputo for featuring my artwork in our group.... Visions of Spring! 9/22/2015