Coreopsis rosea

Coreopsis rosea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Coreopsis
Species: C. rosea
Binomial name
Coreopsis rosea
Nutt.
Synonyms[1]

Calliopsis rosea (Nutt.) Spreng.

Coreopsis rosea is a North American species of tickseeds in sunflower family. It has a discontinuous distribution in the eastern United States and Canada, found in Nova Scotia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Georgia, and South Carolina.[2]

Coreopsis rosea grows in wet areas such as marsh edges.[3] Unlike most Coreopsis species, the ray florets are pink or white (instead of yellow).[3] The only other Coreopsis species with pink rays is C. nudata; C. rosea does not seem to be closely related to Coreopsis species which merely have red dots at the base of the rays.[4] Disc florets of Coreopsis rosea are bright or pale yellow.[3]

References

  1. The Plant List, Coreopsis rosea Nutt.
  2. "Coreopsis rosea Nutt". USDA PLANTS. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
  3. 1 2 3 "24. Coreopsis rosea Nuttall". Flora of North America.
  4. Crawford, D. J.; Mort, M. E. (2005). "Phylogeny of Eastern North American Coreopsis (Asteraceae-Coreopsideae): insights from nuclear and plastid sequences, and comments on character evolution". American Journal of Botany 92 (2): 330–6. doi:10.3732/ajb.92.2.330. PMID 21652409.


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