Coreopsis pulchra F.E. Boynton

Lookout Mountain Tickseed; Sandstone Tickseed

Herb

Perennial

Vascular

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For many years this species was confused with Coreopsis verticillata L., a species of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Coreopsis pulchra has brownish disc flowers while C. verticillata produces greenish-yellow ones. All references of C. verticillata in Alabama so far have turned out to be C. pulchra thus warranting the exclusion of C. verticillata from the Alabama Plant Atlas. -BK

Native S2 (State Rank) G2 (Global Rank)

Smith, E.B. 1976. A biosystematic survey of Coreopsis in Eastern United States and Canada. Sida 6: 123-215.