Location: Cottage Garden Design

 Names:

•  Common Name: Lanceleaf Coreopsis
•  Botanical Name: Coreopsis lanceolata
•  AKA: Lance-leaved Coreopsis, Lanceleaf Tickseed, Sand Coreopsis

Description: Lance-leaf tickseed grows in small clumps but forms extensive colonies. It is 1-2 1/2 feet tall and has leaves 3-4 inches long, opposite, sometimes alternate near the top where the leaves are fewer. Some of the leaves are deeply cut, almost forming 3 leaflets. Flower heads are yellow, 1-1 1/2 inches across. The yellow center or disk flowers stand out distinctly from the ray flowers, which appear to be attached just below them. Ray flowers are 4-lobed. The yellow, daisy-like flowers occur singly atop long, naked peduncles.

 Best Growing Conditions: Full Sun and Partial Shade; Low to Medium Water Demand; Dry Soil

 Landscape Use: Deer Resistant, Salt Tolerant, Rock Garden, Container

 Wildlife Value: Birds, Butterflies (nectar source)