Garden Tickseed - Coreopsis tinctoria
An upright, fast-growing plant, with lance-shaped leaves, reaching a height of 1m. It has large, daisy-like, bright orange-yellow flowerheads with red centres. The flowers are borne on branching stems.
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Usually found as an escape from culivation, and often occuring near to habitaion.
Flowers from summer into early autumn.
Annual
Widespread, but occasional in England usually as an escape from cultivation or seed mixes.
Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley,
junction of Harvest Close
25 July 2025
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley,
junction of Harvest Close
25 July 2025
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley,
junction of Harvest Close
25 July 2025
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley,
junction of Harvest Close
25 July 2025
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Species profile
- Common names
- Garden Tickseed
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asterales
- Family:
- Asteraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 25/07/2025 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 25/07/2025 (Calow, Graham)
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