Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis linifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This species is notable for its narrow leaves, especially the basal ones and those of non-flowering, young plants. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis linifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coreopsis linifolia
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 linifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH (POSSIBLY MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-003:
Coreopsis angustifolia FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Coreopsis gladiata var. linifolia
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Coreopsis oniscicarpa +
COMMON NAME:
Savanna Coreopsis, Savanna Tickseed
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Alan S. Weakley asw_757664939305516
April FL
Apalachicola National Forest
Leaf blades linear-oblanceolate to linear, margins glabrous, surfaces w numerous tiny dark dots, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Coreopsis linifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coreopsis linifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Coreopsis linifolia
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 linifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH (POSSIBLY MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-69-003:
Coreopsis angustifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Coreopsis gladiata var. linifolia
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Coreopsis oniscicarpa +
4684
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: pine savannas, sandhill seeps, sandhill-pocosin ecotones, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, often also basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Reddish
Disk flowers have 4 corolla lobes & 4 anthers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p383-384
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p296
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p070
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p185
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