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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis lanceolata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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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 Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Coreopsis lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-005:
Coreopsis lanceolata FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis crassifolia
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis lanceolata
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 (Carman, 2005).
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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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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
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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 (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis lanceolata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis lanceolata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Coreopsis lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-005:
Coreopsis lanceolata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis crassifolia
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis lanceolata
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Open sandy prairies; eastwards in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia, original native distribution unclear
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disk flowers have 5 corolla lobes & 5 anthers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p150
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p118
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p386
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p310
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p125
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p200
- 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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