Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Coreopsis auriculata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Lobed Tickseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis auriculata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-008:
Coreopsis auriculata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Eared Coreopsis, Lobed Coreopsis, Eared Tickseed, Lobed Tickseed
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_coau_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm110417_013
April Cleburne County AL
Mount Cheaha
Ray flowers 8, yellow, to 1" long, with deeply 4-lobed tips, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm110417_016
April Cleburne County AL
Mount Cheaha
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JK Marlow jkm210508_0174
May Oconee County SC
Ramsey Creek Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210508_0178
May Oconee County SC
Ramsey Creek Preserve
Lvs mostly basal, petioled, ovate to nearly round, oft earlike lobes at base, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm210508_0179
May Oconee County SC
Ramsey Creek Preserve
Outer bracts lanceolate, 6-10 mm long; inner lanceolate to elliptic, 7-13mm, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Bidens and Coreopsis
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JK Marlow jkm210508_0198
May Oconee County SC
Ramsey Creek Preserve
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Coreopsis auriculata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis auriculata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-008:
Coreopsis auriculata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
368
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in Coastal Plain & Mountains)
Look for it on moist slopes & in woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
Disk flowers have 5 corolla lobes & 5 anthers
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p135
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p150
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p118
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p80
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p125
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p200
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p287
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p336
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p195