Scientific Name: Coreopsis grandiflora
Common Name: large flowered coreopsis
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: 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, Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Perennial border
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Ciliate, Entire, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Achene, Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, most blades lanceolate to narrowly elliptical, 4-11(-15)cm long x 1-3(-5)cm wide, pubescent, margins entire or with 1-3 lobes; flower heads daisy-like, ray florets orange-yellow with slightly lobed tips, disk florets darker yellow.