Mondays with Martha #249 - Black-Eyed Susan

This week I share an often underrated but wonderful summer-to-fall blooming wildflower that supports pollinators in my own store landscape: Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta). This species is a great addition to sunny and dry pollinator gardens and along well-drained zones that receive occasional disturbance, helping to reestablish vegetation quickly in tough, dry sites with significant bare ground. Drought resistant and readily establishing from seed, it makes a beautiful summer show early in the life of a wildflower seeding and can be used as an alternative cover crop, especially on dry, flat sites.