Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses

HAIRY COREOPSIS

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Coreopsis pubescens Elliott

Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri

Perennial

Height: 8-36 inches

Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family

Flowering Period: July, August, September

Stems:

Branched distally, glabrate to pubescent.

Leaves:

Mostly cauline, opposite or rarely alternate, occurring on most of the length of the stem; petiole 1/12 to 1 inch; blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.4 to 4 inches long, 1/12 to 1.4 inch wide, entire or with 2 basal lobes.

Inflorescences:

Heads radiate, solitary; peduncles 2.8 to 8 inches. Involucres campanulate. Calyculate bractlets 6-9, lanceolate to linear, 1/8 to 1/4 inch. Phyllaries in 2 series: outer narrowly lanceolate, 1/8 to 1/4 inch; inner ovate to lanceolate, 1/5 to 1/3 inch.

Flowers:

Ray florets usually 8, pistillate or neuter, usually sterile: corolla yellow, ligule 1/2 to 1 inch, apex with 3-5 prominent teeth. Disk florets bisexual, fertile: corolla yellow, ca. 1/5 inch, lobes 5.

Fruits:

Achenes black, elliptic or oblong, 1/10 to 1/8 inch, flattened at right angle to radius of head; pappus of 2 tiny scales.

Habitat:

Floodplain forests, moist draws in oak-hickory forests, and moist thickets

Distribution:

Occurs in the southeast corner of Kansas

Origin:

Native

Comments:

Coreopsis, bug and appearance, alluding to the achenes of some species resembling ticks and pubescens hairy.

Hairy coreopsis