| Scientific Name: | Coreopsis verticillata |
| Common Name: | threadleaf coreopsis, whorled tickseed |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, 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, Dissected, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Rhomboidal, Other, Incised, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, fan-shaped in outline, most 3-5cm long x 4-6cm wide, 3-parted, with each leaflet deeply incised to form mostly 5 thread-like segments 1-2cm long x 1-2mm wide; flower heads up to 3-5cm wide, singly or cymose, ray florets 8, petal-like, golden yellow to creamy white (cvs.) with notched tips, disk florets yellow. | |