Coreopsis leavenworthii Torr. & A.Gray is a plant in the Asteraceae family, order Asterales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Coreopsis leavenworthii Torr. & A.Gray

Coreopsis leavenworthii Torr. & A.Gray

Coreopsis leavenworthii is a yellow-flowered plant found in Florida and Alabama that blooms year-round, peaking in late spring to mid summer.

Family
Genus
Coreopsis
Order
Asterales
Class
Magnoliopsida
⚠️ Toxicity Note

Insufficient toxicity evidence; avoid direct contact and ingestion.

About Coreopsis leavenworthii Torr. & A.Gray

Coreopsis leavenworthii typically grows 30 to 70 cm (12 to 28 in) tall. It has yellow flower heads, which sometimes have reddish-brown blotches at the base of the ray florets. Its foliage is 1 or 1.5 pinnately to bipinnately compound with entire edges, and leaf shapes range from elliptic to oblanceolate to linear. It blooms year round, with the main blooming period in May, June and July. It is found in the U.S. states of Florida and Alabama, growing in moist, sandy soils, flatwoods or ditches at elevations of 0 to 20 meters above sea level.

Photo: (c) Judy Gallagher, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Judy Gallagher · cc-by-sa

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Asterales Asteraceae Coreopsis

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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