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  - Division - Flowering Plants - Anthophyta
    - Class - Dicots - Dicotyledoneae
      - Order - Aster/Sunflowers - Asterales
        
        Family - Aster/Sunflowers - Asteraceae
        
        Species - Cut-leaved Coneflower - Rudbeckia laciniata

Cut-leaved Coneflower - Rudbeckia laciniata

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: SNR

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MNPS Threat Rank:
C-value: 5

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General Description

Stems 50–200 cm. Herbage glabrate, glaucous. Leaf blades ovate, 10–25 cm long, deeply divided into 3 to 5 lobes or serrate leaflets; ultimate segments lanceolate; uppermost leaves ovate to lanceolate. Heads radiate; phyllaries ovate to lanceolate, minutely ciliate, 5–15 mm long; receptacle hemispheric to conic, 10–25 mm high. Rays 8–12; ligules pubescent, 2–4 cm long. Disk corollas yellowish, 4–5 mm long. Achenes 3–5 mm long (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Our plants are variety ampla (A. Nelson) Cronquist.

Species Range

Present

Range Comments

Throughout temperate North America (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database

Number of Observations: 7

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Relative Density

Recency

(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)

Habitat

Moist meadows, often along streams; valleys, montane (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

References

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- Lesica, P., M. T. Lavin, and P. F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
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- Elbert Little's Atlas of United State's Trees
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Citation for data on this website:
Cut-leaved Coneflower — Rudbeckia laciniata. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on August 19, 2018, from http://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PDAST85090