Whorled Tickseed
Coreopsis verticillata
Yellow flowers from May into July, worked by ligated furrow bees and bicolored striped sweat bees. It grows wild in 42 of North Carolina’s 100 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
Calico Aster
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
New England Aster
Small's Ragwort
Black-eyed SusanFacts from the Quercus record for Coreopsis verticillata.