Whorled Tickseed
Coreopsis verticillata
Yellow flowers from May into July, worked by ligated furrow bees and bicolored striped sweat bees. It grows wild in 3 of Georgia’s 159 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 2.8 ft to 3 ft tall, 1.7 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, May to Jul
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 6 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 46 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus), Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens), Fairy bee (Perdita scopata), Green sweat bee (Augochlorella bracteata)
Grows well with
Facts from the Quercus record for Coreopsis verticillata.