Leavenworth's tickseed | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Coreopsis |
Species: | C. leavenworthii
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Binomial name | |
Coreopsis leavenworthii | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Coreopsis leavenworthii, the Leavenworth's tickseed, [2] is an annual or short lived perennial plant species in the family Asteraceae. It is often grouped within Coreopsis tinctoria which it resembles. [3]
Coreopsis leavenworthii typically grows 30 to 70 cm (12 to 28 in) tall with yellow flower heads that sometimes have reddish-brown blotches at the base of the ray florets. The foliage is 1 or 1.5 pinnately to bipinnately compound with entire edges, [4] and elliptic to oblanceolate to linear. [3]
It blooms year round, mostly in the months of May, June and July. [3]
It is found in the states of Florida and Alabama, and grows in moist, sandy soils, flatwoods or ditches at elevations of 0 to 20 meters from sea level. [3] [5]