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Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (uncommon in Mountains)

Look for it in disturbed areas. It is dften spread from cultivation, its original range obscure, per Weakley's Flora

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...Variable ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p150
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p118
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p386
• 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 p194

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Coreopsis lanceolata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis lanceolata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-69-005:
Coreopsis lanceolata   FAMILY Asteraceae