Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Golden Tickseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Coreopsis tinctoria
INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-013 & 014:
Coreopsis tinctoria FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Coreopsis cardaminefolia
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis cardaminefolia
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis tinctoria
COMMON NAME:
Plains Coreopsis, Calliopsis, Garden Coreopsis, Golden Tickseed
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June Greenville County SC
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June Greenville County SC
Distinguished by reddish-purple disk & red-brown blotch at base of rays, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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June Greenville County SC
Leaves 2-4" long, 1-2x pinnately divided into mostly linear segments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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June Greenville County SC
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Sam Pratt sbp060121_image0
June Spartanburg County SC
in cultivation
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Sam Pratt sbp060121_image2
June Spartanburg County SC
in cultivation
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Keith Bradley kab_c_tinctoria_1254
July Lexington County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_tinctoria_2
July
Rays are conspicuously toothed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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July Greenville County SC
Field
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Coreopsis tinctoria
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-013 & 014:
Coreopsis tinctoria
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Coreopsis cardaminefolia
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis cardaminefolia
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis tinctoria
379
Forb
Winter annual
Habitat: Roadsides and other disturbed places, per Weakley's Flora
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain & Mountains)
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LEAVES:
Pinnately or 2-pinnately lobed into linear or narrowly lanceolate segments
Opposite & often basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow with red at base
Disc: Red
Disk flowers have 4 corolla lobes & 4 anthers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p310
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p208
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p072
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p288
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p337
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p194
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