Coreopsis californica
Coreopsis basalis
California tickseed
golden mane tickseed, rock tickseed
blades simple or 1(–2)-pinnately lobed, terminal lobes filiform, 0.5–1(–1.5) mm wide.
basal and cauline on proximal 3/4–7/8 of plant heights;
petioles 8–35(–120) mm;
blades simple or 1(–2)-pinnately lobed with 3–9+ lobes, simple blades or terminal lobes elliptic or lanceolate to oblanceolate or linear, 25–55+ × (1–)2–9(–20) mm.
5–15(–30+) cm.
6–15+ cm.
(5–)8(–12+);
laminae 7–10(–15+) mm.
yellow, usually each with a proximal, red-brown to purple spot or band, 15–20+ mm.
20–60(–100+);
corollas 2–3.6 mm.
3–4 mm, apices red-brown to purple.
5–8, obovate to oblanceolate, 4–6(–7+) mm.
lance-ovate, 7–9+ mm.
of (3–)5–8 linear bractlets 3–7+ mm, not ciliolate near bases.
of lance-deltate to linear bractlets 6–9(–12+) mm.
± oblong, (2.5–)3–4+ mm, marked adaxially with red dots or dashes, wings corky-thickened, faces ± tuberculate and/or hirtellous.
1.2–1.8 mm, wingless (margins ± inrolled adaxially, ± corky).
nodes proximal to first peduncle usually 5–10+, distalmost 1–3 internodes 4–7(–10) cm.
= 24.
= 26.
Coreopsis californica
Coreopsis basalis
Coreopsis californica may occur sporadically in New Mexico.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Plants in the western part of the distribution of Coreopsis basalis usually have narrower lobes of leaf blades and narrower outer phyllaries; such plants have been treated as C. wrightii or as C. basalis var. wrightii.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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