Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Star 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 pubescens +
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis pubescens +
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-007:
Coreopsis pubescens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Hairy Coreopsis, Star Tickseed
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Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
LEAVES:
Tending to be evergreen?
Simple
Basal & opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
5 stamens in disc flowers
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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Coreopsis pubescens + FAMILY Asteraceae
Hairy Coreopsis, Star Tickseed
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Star Tickseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_pubescens_5_25_06_2
May
Among SC's Coreopsis, only 2 species have 5-lobed, 5-stamened disc flowers, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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
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.
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.