Coreopsis+tripteris


 * Tall Coreopsis **

**//Coreopsis tripteris//**

**Aster family (Asteraceae)**

The Coreopsis Tripteris is a Native Perennial plant. This plants height can be 4-8”. Usually the Coreopsis tripteris is unbranched, except for the flowering stems on the top. The base of the plant can be 8”long and 6” across, while the leaves on top are 3” long and ½” across. The leaves are smooth, separately divided around the plants base. The plant is hairless all-over the plants body. Each flower is about 11/2-2” across. On each flower there a 6-10 flower yellow rays florets. This plant has no floral scent like other flowers out there. The blooming stage last about 1 to 2 months. This flower can be found in many types of soil: Clay-loam, loam, gravel, and sand. This plant is usually found in moist to mesic black soil prairies, sand prairies, savannas, and sandy savannas. Also thickets, seeps, bluffs, limestone glades, abandoned fields, and also on railroads alongside the tracks.  This flower attracts long-tongued bees and short-tongued bees primarily and also: bumblebees,  Cuckoo bees, Miner bees, large Leaf-Cutting bees, Halictine bees, and Panurgine bees. p, bee flies, and other flies, and butterflies, skippers, and the goldenrod solider beetle, like the Coreopsis Tripteris. Mammalian herbivores also occasionally eat this plant.

 The botanical plant name for the Coreopsis Tripteris is Coreopsis Tripteris. Its color is yellow and common height is yellow.

 Blooming season is July-October. The common name is Tall Coreopsis. This plant produces over 1600 seeds. All this information and pictures were found at these websites below:

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http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/tl_coreopsisx.htm