Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis pubescens var. pubescens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Star Tickseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis pubescens var. pubescens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Coreopsis pubescens
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-007:
Coreopsis pubescens FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis pubescens
COMMON NAME:
Common Hairy Coreopsis, Star Tickseed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_copu2_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_pubescens_5_25_06_2
May
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JK Marlow jkm230609_3964
June Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm230609_4045
June Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm230609_4048
June Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm140704_577
July Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Here the outer phyllaries are spreading, the inner just beginning to open.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Bidens and Coreopsis
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JK Marlow jkm140704_580
July Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm140704_584
July Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm190719_0034
July Transylvania County NC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm190719_0035
July Transylvania County NC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm190719_0038
July Transylvania County NC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm150814_743
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm150814_743b
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm150814_782
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm150814_782b
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm180821_3956
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Lvs may have 1 or 2 basal divisions, shaped like the main leaf but smaller, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999).
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JK Marlow jkm180821_3957
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Calyculi [outer involucral bracts] of lanceolate to lance-linear bractlets, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm180821_4045
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Leaves ternately or rarely pinnately dissected, blades or divisions elliptic, lanceolate or ovate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_091521gsmnp07b
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Stem (and often also the leaves) rather densely hairy (to glabrate), per Weakley's Flora (2022).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis pubescens var. pubescens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis pubescens var. pubescens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Coreopsis pubescens
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-007:
Coreopsis pubescens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis pubescens
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: forests, woodlands, and rock outcrops, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains (uncommon in Mountains of GA & SC) (uncommon in GA Piedmont) (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Tending to be evergreen?
Simple
Basal & opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disk flowers have 5 corolla lobes & 5 anthers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p139
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p308
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p273
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p287
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p336
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p194
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