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garden coreopsis, lanced-leaved coreopsis, lanceleaf tickseed

Habit Plants perennial, 2–9 dm.
Leaves

simple, linear to elliptic-lanceolate, or pinnately compound with 2–6 broadly linear leaflets and a terminal elliptic-lanceolate segment, 4–20 cm;

margins hispid-puberulent;

tips acute;

surfaces villous- or glandular-puberulent.

Inflorescences

solitary terminal and axillary heads.

Peduncles

12–30 cm.

Involucres

hemispheric, 8–14 mm.

Ray florets

8–15;

rays 13–30 mm, yellow;

tips usually 4+-lobed.

Disc florets

corollas 4–7 mm; well exceeding involucres;

stamens yellow.

Phyllaries

outer series 50–~100% length of inner series.

Fruits

2.5–4 mm; black, glabrous, broadly or narrowly winged, pappi of 2 short scales.

2n

=26.

Coreopsis lanceolata

Distribution
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Discussion

Roadsides, disturbed areas. Flowering May–Jul. 0–500 m. Casc, Est. CA, WA; British Columbia, central and eastern Canada and US. Exotic.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 232
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
C. rosea, C. tinctoria
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