Plains Coreopsis

(Coreopsis tinctorial)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Erect, freely branched annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot

Leaf anatomy: Oppositely arranged, lower leaves pinnately to bipinnately divided, upper leaves undivided, narrowly linear shape

Reproduction: Diffuse corymb of many heads, ray florets yellow or orange, deep red-brown coloration near floret base

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}