Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Coreopsis lanceolata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Lanceleaf Coreopsis at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis lanceolata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-005:
Coreopsis lanceolata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Lanceleaf Coreopsis, Longstalk Coreopsis, Lanceleaf Tickseed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cola5_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm180604_2712
June McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Blades simple or with 1–2+ lateral lobes, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm180604_2713
June McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Plant glabrous except the ciliate bases of the leaves, per Manual of the Southeastern Flora (JK Small, 1933).
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JK Marlow jkm180604_2714
June McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Similar to C. auriculata, but larger flowers and longer narrower leaves, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm180604_2715
June McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Outer involucral bracts green, lanceolate; inner elliptic to lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Bidens and Coreopsis
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JK Marlow jkm180608_2803
June McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Stem leafy near the base, bearing long naked peduncle-like branches, per Manual of the Southeastern Flora (JK Small, 1933).
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JK Marlow jkm070703_005
July Summers County WV
Sandstone Visitors Center
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JK Marlow jkm070703_041
July Summers County WV
Sandstone Visitors Center
A smooth plant, widely cultivated. Leaves to 8" long arising near plant base, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-005:
Coreopsis lanceolata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
369
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
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.
...Variable
...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!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p150
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p118
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p386
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p310
- 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