Common Name: Lance-leaf Coreopsis

Latin Name: Coreopsis lanceolata

Height: 2 feet tall

Duration: Perennial

Bloom Color: Yellow

Bloom Time: May - August

Water Use: Medium

Soil: Medium-Dry, Dry. Sandy, sandy loam, medium loam, clay loam, clay, acid-based, calcareous.

Light Requirement: Full Sun, Part Sun

Spreads via seeds, self-seeds.

Host Plant: Wavy lined Emerald Moth and Common Tan Wave Moth caterpillars feed on the flowerheads of this plant.

Pollinators: Long-tongued bees, short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, skippers, day-flying moths, and beetles. The long-tongued bee, Melissodes coreopsis, is a specialist pollinator of Coreopsis species.  

Other Information:  This plant is easily divided and grown from transplants. Deadhead spent flowers to prolong blooming (or keep spent blooms for seed collection.)