🪶Indigenous / Native American🏞️Appalachian Folk Medicine
Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
About Black-Eyed Susan
Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American and Appalachian Folk Medicine traditions to help with Immune Support, Common Cold, Wound Healing, and Cold, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family, native to Eastern and Central North America and naturalized in the Western part of the continent as well as in China. It has now been found in all 10 Canadian Provinces and all 48 of the states in the contiguous United States.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both