Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_coca12_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060617_011
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm060617_012
June Greenville County SC
Distinguished by reddish-purple disk & red-brown blotch at base of rays, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm060617_016
June Greenville County SC
Leaves 2-4" long, 1-2x pinnately divided into mostly linear segments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm060617_020
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.
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JK Marlow s020707_a
July Greenville County SC
Field
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (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
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
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain & Mountains)
Habitat: Roadsides and other disturbed places, per Weakley's Flora
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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
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
Disk flowers have 4 corolla lobes & 4 anthers
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p081
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p310
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p208
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p288
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p337
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p194