Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis falcata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Pool Coreopsis at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis falcata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coreopsis falcata
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Coreopsis gladiata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Coreopsis falcata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Coreopsis falcata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-001:
Coreopsis falcata FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis falcata
COMMON NAME:
Pool Coreopsis, Carolina Tickseed, Sickle Tickseed
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Arleigh Birchler rlb_cfalcata
May Pender County NC
Distinctive from C. gladiata in ecological preferences, morphology, phenology, and distribution, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Arleigh Birchler rlb_cfalcata_b
May Pender County NC
C. gladiata & C. linifolia share its range & habitats but bloom in the fall, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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Arleigh Birchler rlb_cfalcata1
May Pender County NC
Basal/lower leaves present at anthesis; mid-cauline leaves narrow or slender, per Weakley's Flora.
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Arleigh Birchler rlb_cfalcata1_b
May Pender County NC
Lower leaves sometimes with a pair of narrow lobes at the base of the blade, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis falcata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis falcata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coreopsis falcata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Coreopsis gladiata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Coreopsis falcata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Coreopsis falcata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-001:
Coreopsis falcata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis falcata
2990
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Peat bogs, very wet savannas, ditches and borrow pits in savannas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, often also basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Reddish
Disk flowers have 4 corolla lobes & 4 anthers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p314
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p383
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p396
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p185
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