Scientific Name: Coreopsis lanceolata
Common Name: lanceleaf coreopsis
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: U.S. - central
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Dense, Spreading, Upright
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Small garden/space, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Ciliate
Flowers: Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown
Key ID Features:
Leaves lance-shaped, hairy, entire to lobed, 5-15cm long; heads yellow, daisy-like with eight mostly yellow rays that are toothed at the tips, disk florets yellow, up to 5cm wide; achenes resemble ticks.