RHH's photos with the keyword: rudbeckia

These Cutleaf Coneflowers were photographed in the Coloroado Rockies.

This is a California Coneflower, a rather rare wildflower that grows in serpentine seeps. We found it in exactly such a place while visitng various bogs in sothwestern Oregon.

Here is a Northwestern Fritillary on a California Coneflower. We had gone bog-crawling looking for orchids and Cobra Lilies along the Illinois River when the photo was taken.

This is Rudbeckia glaucescens, the California or Waxy Coneflower, another serpentophile, i.e., a plant that loves serpentine soils. For that reason it is found only in southern Oregon and northern California where such soils exist, and grows there in bogs, fens and wetlands. It is uncommon, too, as a result of its preference for serpentine and was a delight to see when we found it in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/08/orchid-hunting-in-siskiyous.html

At least it was when we visited Manito in October. Many of them had alreadfy been touched by frost but they were some of the last flowers blooming in the gardens. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/10/autumn-at-m...