Common Name: Threadleaf Coreopsis
Family: Asteraceae
Native Range: Found throughout the United States, absent in North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Alaska
Zone: 4 to 9
Height: 18 to 36 inches
Spread: 12 to 36 inches
Bloom Time: June-August (or later depending on weather conditions)
Bloom Description: Bright yellow, daisy like flowers.
Sun: Full sun, tolerates light shade.
Water: Dry to Medium
Maintenance: Low
Attracts: Syrphid flies, mason bees, bumble bees, green metallic sweat bees, carpenter bee, Cuckoo bee, Honey Bee, Yellow-collard Scape Moth
There are numerous Coreopsis cultivars available to the home gardener. As an easy-to-grow, perennial this plant makes a wonderful addition to a pollinator garden. Coreopsis can be incorporated in any wildflower garden, particularly as a border plant. It tolerates dry and poor soils and hot weather. It can easily be added to any flower bed. When aggressively deadheaded, coreopsis will continue to bloom throughout the season. Coreopsis can be purchased at most garden centers, but be sure that the plants were not treated with systemic pesticides, which will have devastating impacts on pollinators. It is also easily grow from seed and once established can be divided in spring. It will readily self-seed.
Horticultural and Pollinator Information:
Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finders
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=c260
Illinois Wildflowers
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/pr_coreopsisx.htm
Family: Asteraceae
Native Range: Found throughout the United States, absent in North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Alaska
Zone: 4 to 9
Height: 18 to 36 inches
Spread: 12 to 36 inches
Bloom Time: June-August (or later depending on weather conditions)
Bloom Description: Bright yellow, daisy like flowers.
Sun: Full sun, tolerates light shade.
Water: Dry to Medium
Maintenance: Low
Attracts: Syrphid flies, mason bees, bumble bees, green metallic sweat bees, carpenter bee, Cuckoo bee, Honey Bee, Yellow-collard Scape Moth
There are numerous Coreopsis cultivars available to the home gardener. As an easy-to-grow, perennial this plant makes a wonderful addition to a pollinator garden. Coreopsis can be incorporated in any wildflower garden, particularly as a border plant. It tolerates dry and poor soils and hot weather. It can easily be added to any flower bed. When aggressively deadheaded, coreopsis will continue to bloom throughout the season. Coreopsis can be purchased at most garden centers, but be sure that the plants were not treated with systemic pesticides, which will have devastating impacts on pollinators. It is also easily grow from seed and once established can be divided in spring. It will readily self-seed.
Horticultural and Pollinator Information:
Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finders
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=c260
Illinois Wildflowers
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/pr_coreopsisx.htm