Wildflower Walk

Rudbeckia hirta - Black-eyed Susan - another member of the vast family of Asters (Asteraceae).  Sometimes called the Brown-eyed Susan it is a native perennial that is now found just about everywhere from fields to yard gardens.  There are also a bazillion varieties of cultivars that people plant in their household gardens.

With the official arrival of summer these plentiful yellow flowers are adding more color and variety to the prairie planting.  

And the finches go absolutely nuts over the seeds they produce.

Nobody seems to know how Susan became associated with this native plant.