Coreopsis

coreopsis (kōrēŏp`sĭs), or tickseed, names for species of Coreopsis, a chiefly North American genus of the family Asteraceae (aster family). They are easily cultivated annuals or perennials with daisylike heads of flowers in various colors—commonly yellow or variegated. Garden kinds are sometimes called calliopsis. Coreopsis is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Asterales, family Asteraceae.

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coreopsis

Any ornamental summer-blooming plant of the genus Coreopsis, commonly known as tickseed, in the composite family, consisting of about 100 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to North America. Members have flower heads with yellow disk flowers and yellow, pink, white, or variegated ray flowers. The heads are solitary or in branched clusters, and some varieties have double flowers. Golden coreopsis (C. tinctoria) is a popular garden plant; swamp tickseed (C. rosea) is grown in wildflower gardens.

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coreopsis

symbol of cheerfulness because of its bright yellow flowers. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 371]

See : Cheerfulness

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Coreopsis

(tickseed), a genus of plants of the family Compositae. They are annual or perennial grasses; less often they are subshrubs or shrubs. The leaves are entire or dissected. The inflorescence is a head, usually with infertile ligulate flowers and bisexual tubular disk-flowers. The achenes have poorly developed awns or are awnless. There are approximately 120 species, distributed primarily in America; less frequently they are found in tropical Africa and on the Hawaiian Islands. Several species are used as ornamentals, including the annuals Coreopsis tinetoria and golden wave (C. basalts, or C. drummondii ) and the perennial C. grandiflora. The forms and varieties of C. tinctoria and golden wave are distinguished by their height (15–100 cm) and by the color of the ligulate flowers (yellow, dark red, reddish brown, or bicolor). C. grandiflora is cultivated particularly for cutflowers.