Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Lobed Tickseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Coreopsis auriculata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis auriculata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-008:
Coreopsis auriculata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Eared Coreopsis, Lobed Coreopsis, Eared Tickseed, Lobed Tickseed
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Look for it on moist slopes & in woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (rare in Coastal Plain & Mountains)
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!
Coreopsis auriculata FAMILY Asteraceae
Eared Coreopsis, Lobed Coreopsis, Eared Tickseed, Lobed Tickseed
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Lobed Tickseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm110417_013
April Cleburne County AL
Mount Cheaha
Ray flowers 8, yellow, to 1" long, with deeply 4-lobed tips, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow jkm110417_016
April Cleburne County AL
Mount Cheaha
Lvs mostly basal, petioled, ovate to nearly round, oft earlike lobes at base, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm120922_079
September Greenville County SC
SC Native Plant Society Plant Sale
Outer bracts lanceolate, 6-10 mm long; inner lanceolate to elliptic, 7-13mm, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Bidens and Coreopsis