Common Name: Brown-eyed Susan

Latin Name: Rudbeckia triloba

Height: 2-5 feet

Duration: Biennial

Bloom Color: Yellow

Bloom Time: August - October

Water Use: Medium-Wet to Medium-Dry

Soil: Wide range of soils

Light Requirement: Full to Partial Sun

Spreads via seeds, self-sows

Host Plant: Silvery Checkerspot, Wavy-lined Emerald, Pearl Crescent butterflies

Pollinators: Bumblebees, little carpenter bees, digger bees, cuckoo bees, leaf-cutting bees, Andrenid bees, Halictid bees, wasps, Syrphid flies, bee flies, Tachinid flies, butterflies.

Other Information: Seeds eaten by goldfinches and sparrows. Deer resistant.