Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Anacis tripteris
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Tall Coreopsis at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis tripteris
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coreopsis tripteris
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Coreopsis tripteris
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-011:
Coreopsis tripteris FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis tripteris
COMMON NAME:
Tall Coreopsis, Tall Tickseed, Threeleaf Tickseed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cotr4_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm080729_027
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
It grows up to 8' tall, likes wet to moist soil, and can take some shade, per Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002).
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JK Marlow jkm080729_028
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm080729_033
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm080729_033b
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
The inner involucral bracts not yet open, flower heads sealed up like pillboxes.
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JK Marlow s080729_a
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Principal leaves are palmately divided into 3 segments and most are petioled, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm120815_821
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Outer involucral bracts linear, 3-6mm long: inner lanceolate, 4-7mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Bidens and Coreopsis
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_coreopsis_tripteris
September
The rays are wholly yellow and without teeth at the apex; the disk purplish, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Anacis tripteris
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis tripteris
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coreopsis tripteris
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Coreopsis tripteris
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-011:
Coreopsis tripteris
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis tripteris
380
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Bottomland forests, riverside scours, other rich, moist woodlands and woodland borders, wet hammocks (FL), primarily over calcareous or mafic rocks or on nutrient-rich alluvium, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Midstem leaves palmately 3-foliolate, terminal leaflet sometimes divided again
Opposite
Leaves (at least the lower) distinctly petioled: 5-40mm long
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Red
Disk flowers have 5 corolla lobes & 5 anthers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p140
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p044
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p119
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p394
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p308
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p124
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p071
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p288
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p337
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p194
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