Scientific Name: Coreopsis rosea
Common Name: pink coreopsis, pink tickseed
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial, Weed (horticultural)
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Stiffly upright
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Incised, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Head (capitulum), Pink, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Oct-Nov
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, sessile, highly divided into linear segments 3-7cm long x 1-2mm wide at base, each segment may be further divided into long narrow lobes; flower heads daisy-like, up to 1.5-2.5cm wide, ray florets pink with untoothed apex, disk florets yellow.