North Carolina Wildflowers

Asteraceae (Compositae) > Coreopsis (tickseed, coreopsis)

If identified correctly, this taxon is rare in North Carolina (NC Natural Heritage Program Watch List), growing in bogs and swamps.

With Bald Cypress knees. No basal leaves noted.

Common in the NC coastal plain (rare in the mountains), Texas Tickseed grows in savannas, bogs, and various wet-soil habitats.

Formerly known as Coreopsis angustifolia.

Cauline leaves simple, linear, reduced, and opposite

Simple, elliptic basal leaves

Statewide and common in North Carolina in dry wooded habitats.

These flower heads are still in bud with one just starting to open.

Leaves are distinctly whorled.

whole plant

Common in the NC mountains and rare elsewhere.

In NC, this plant grows in and near dry woodlands. Common in the piedmont, less so in the mountains and coastal plain.

If identified correctly, this species normally flowers early summer, but can respond to fire by flowering at other times of the year It grows in wet pine savannas and similar habitats in the coastal plain.

Close up showing 4-parted disc flowers