| Scientific Name: | Coreopsis spp. & cvs. |
| Common Name: | coreopsis |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - central |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Cut flower or foliage, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Dissected, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Pubescent, Filiform, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves varies with species - lanceolate to highly dissected or pinnified with lobes only 1-2mm wide, margins otherwise smooth, glabrous to pubescent; flower heads orange-yellow and daisy-like, with a small central disk floret area surrounded by eight ray florets with toothed apexes, bracts in two distinct series of eight each. | |