Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
Stiff tickseed is a tough, rhizomatous prairie coreopsis with stiff three-lobed leaves and clean yellow daisies. Drought-proof and colony-forming for meadows and tough sites.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1.5–2.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- Bloom
- July, August
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- butterflies
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, IA, IL, IN, KS, LA, MI, MN, MO, NE, OK, SD, WI
Related native plants
More Coreopsis species
- Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria)
- Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)
- Tall Coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris)
- Greater Tickseed (Coreopsis major)
- Giant Coreopsis (Coreopsis gigantea)
- Threadleaf Tickseed (Coreopsis verticillata)