Jennifer Ebeling<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/December" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>December</span></a> 12, 1702<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> Olaus <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Rudbeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rudbeck</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Swedish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Swedish</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Botanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Botanist</span></a>, died.</p><p>The year he died, his <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Town" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Town</span></a>, Upsala, had a terrible <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fire</span></a>. His <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Home" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Home</span></a> & <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Private" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Private</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Collections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collections</span></a> burned as he helped <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Save" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Save</span></a> the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Library</span></a>.</p><p>28 years later, Carl <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Linnaeus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linnaeus</span></a> named the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Rudbeckia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rudbeckia</span></a>, or <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BlackEyedSusan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackEyedSusan</span></a>, after his old <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Professor</span></a>.</p><p>Linneaus wrote,</p><p>"So long as the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a> [survives] and each <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spring</span></a> [is] covered with <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flowers</span></a>, the Rudbeckia will preserve your <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Glorious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glorious</span></a> name."</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Garden</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Flower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flower</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Cottage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cottage</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Blossom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blossom</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Bloom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bloom</span></a></p>