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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

Coreopsis calliopsidea

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
C. lanceolata, C. rosea, C. tinctoria
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