If you're looking for a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, long-blooming flower to fill a bed or line a border, coreopsis ...

The botanical name Coreopsis is used more often than the common name Tickseed, probably because the latter is less appealing and consumers might avoid a plant associated— even if in name only ...

Florida's state wildflower, tickseed, in the genus Coreopsis, is a short-lived perennial usually treated as an annual that self-seeds. There are 13 tickseed species occurring naturally in Florida ...

Yellow coneflower thrives in full sun but can tolerate light shade. New plants need regular watering, but once established, ...

only feeds on coreopsis, sometimes called tickseed.OSU Extension Service Q: I just found a few of my plants that are covered in an insect that looks like a striped ladybug. They appear to be ...

Vaningen’s species is plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria). The most commonly grown species is known as large-flowered tickseed (Coreopsis grandiflora). Coreopsis gets its common name from the ...

If you have a sunny spot and haven’t tried growing Coreopsis lanceolata, I encourage you to go for it. Make a small investment in a few tickseed plants. Don’t worry about more ticks – you ...

All 12 species of tickseed (Coreopsis) native to Florida were appointed in the early 1990s to represent our state. As you may have guessed, the common name “tickseed” comes from the ...

The ripe, fertile achenes are made by the disk flowers. Our Mystery Plant (Chipola tickseed, Coreopsis integrifolia) is actually a rare one, known from the Coastal Plain of South Carolina and ...

Florida’s state flower, tickseed, or Coreopsis leavenworthii, is in bloom now, putting on an impressive display at Big Flats Marsh. The annual wildflower show will last just a few more weeks.