Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida

Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida

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Native to West Virginia. How scores work Is it native here?

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Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida photograph — natalie · CC0 · Original photograph

Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

Hidden from default planting suggestions. Wildlife value and native status remain unchanged.

At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 1 West Virginia county.

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

20CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including WV

Genus host records with ranges including WV · Rudbeckia

Chlosyne nycteisSilvery Checkerspot
Acharia stimuleaSaddleback Caterpillar Moth
Adaina ambrosiaeAmbrosia Plume Moth, Ragweed Plume Moth
Archips griseaGray Archips
Chlorochlamys chloroleucariaBlackberry Looper Moth
Epiblema carolinanaGray-Blotched Epiblema
Epiblema tripartitanaThree-Parted Epiblema
Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
Lithophane unimodaDowdy Pinion

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Orthotaenia undulanaDusky Leafroller
Papaipema cataphractaBurdock Border, Potato-Stalk Borer
Papaipema nebrisStalk Borer
Papaipema nelitaConeflower Borer
Papaipema unimodaMeadow Rue Borer, Chain Fern Border Moth
Phtheochroa birdanaBird's Cochylid
Synchlora aerataWavy-Lined Emerald, Camouflaged Looper
Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
Epiblema tandana
Paralobesia rhoifructana

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

56BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Rudbeckia

Individual names are not available yet.

Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0

25Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Rudbeckia

Andrena aliciae
Andrena asteris
Andrena rudbeckiae
Diadasia enavata
Dieunomia bolliana
Dieunomia heteropoda
Megachile inimica
Megachile parallela
Megachile pugnata
Megachile xylocopoides

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Melissodes bidentis
Melissodes boltoniae
Melissodes coreopsis
Melissodes denticulatus
Melissodes dentiventris
Melissodes desponsus
Melissodes druriellus
Melissodes illatus
Melissodes subillatus
Melissodes trinodis
Melissodes wheeleri
Paranthidium jugatorium
Perdita octomaculata
Protandrena albitarsis
Protandrena andrenoides

Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0

—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: ASTERACEAE

What its natural habitat tells you

Conservation status

West Virginia rank	S1
Global rank	G5T4?
WV status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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