Among the bumble-bees in red-top hay, a freckled field of brown-eyed Susans dripping yellow leaves in July,
     I read your heart in a book.

From "Adelaide Crapsey" by Carl Sandburg

Brown-Eyed Susan grows profusely in large masses around the grain bins on my farm and in other spots that have been disturbed and then left unattended.

It is a tall, much branched plant, covered with small daisy-type flower heads having a ball-shaped dark brown disk and bright yellow petal-like ray flowers that sometimes have a patch of light yellow or white near their tip.

Although similar in name to Black-Eyed Susan, they are easy to distinguish because it is much taller, is highly branched, and its flowers are smaller.

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