General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Herb/Forb
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| Life cycle: |
Perennial
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| Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun
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| Water Preferences: |
Mesic
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| Minimum cold hardiness: |
Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
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| Maximum recommended zone: |
Zone 8b
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| Plant Height: |
2 to 8 feet |
| Plant Spread: |
2 to 8 feet |
| Leaves: |
Fragrant
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| Flowers: |
Showy
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| Flower Color: |
Yellow
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| Bloom Size: |
1"-2"
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| Flower Time: |
Summer
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| Uses: |
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
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| Wildlife Attractant: |
Birds
Butterflies
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| Resistances: |
Deer Resistant
Drought tolerant
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| Miscellaneous: |
Tolerates poor soil
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- Tall Tickseed
- Tickseed
- Tall Coreopsis
Posted by
ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Sep 6, 2018 10:40 AM concerning plant:
Some native plant nurseries sell this Tall Coreopsis or Tickseed, as Yellow Springs Native Plant Nursery & Goat Farm near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania where they planted a few near their house. I have seen it wild in the huge restored prairie at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmington, Illinois, just south of Joliet. It is normally a very tall perennial, smooth, with stalked leaves divided into three segments. It has an anise-like odor if the foliage is crushed. It grows in thickets, meadows, prairies, and woodland edges from Wisconsin and southern Ontario down into the South. In a garden it may need staking or cutting way back in June to keep it more stocky in habit. Great, low-maintenance native forb.
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