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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis falcata   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis falcata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Coreopsis falcata

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Coreopsis gladiata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Coreopsis falcata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Coreopsis falcata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-001:

Coreopsis falcata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Coreopsis falcata

 

COMMON NAME:
Pool Coreopsis, Carolina Tickseed, Sickle Tickseed


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image of Coreopsis falcata, Pool Coreopsis, Carolina Tickseed, Sickle Tickseed

Arleigh Birchler    rlb_cfalcata

May    Pender County    NC

Distinctive from C. gladiata in ecological preferences, morphology, phenology, and distribution, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Coreopsis falcata, Pool Coreopsis, Carolina Tickseed, Sickle Tickseed

Arleigh Birchler    rlb_cfalcata_b

May    Pender County    NC

C. gladiata & C. linifolia share its range & habitats but bloom in the fall, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

image of Coreopsis falcata, Pool Coreopsis, Carolina Tickseed, Sickle Tickseed

Arleigh Birchler    rlb_cfalcata1

May    Pender County    NC

Basal/lower leaves present at anthesis; mid-cauline leaves narrow or slender, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Coreopsis falcata, Pool Coreopsis, Carolina Tickseed, Sickle Tickseed

Arleigh Birchler    rlb_cfalcata1_b

May    Pender County    NC

Lower leaves sometimes with a pair of narrow lobes at the base of the blade, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis falcata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis falcata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coreopsis falcata

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Coreopsis gladiata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Coreopsis falcata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Coreopsis falcata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-001:
Coreopsis falcata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Coreopsis falcata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2990

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Peat bogs, very wet savannas, ditches and borrow pits in savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, often also basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Reddish
Disk flowers have 4 corolla lobes & 4 anthers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Black
Achene

 

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