Savanna Tickseed
Coreopsis linifolia
Found in pine savannas, sandhill seeps, sandhill-pocosin ecotones. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you
Native to Alabama. How scores work Is it native here?
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- Height
- Up to about 28 inches
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil moisture
- Moist to wet
At a glance
- Life cycle
- Perennial
- Bloom
- July and October
Not yet recorded · Spread · Leaves
Recorded in 11 Alabama counties.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
Who uses this plant?
7CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AL
Genus host records with ranges including AL · Coreopsis
- Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
- Nathalis ioleDainty Sulphur, Dwarf Yellow
- Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
- Suleima helianthanaSunflower Bud Moth
- Synchlora aerataWavy-Lined Emerald, Camouflaged Looper
- Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
- Tornos scolopacinariaDimorphic Gray
46BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Coreopsis
Individual names are not available yet.
Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
15Specialist beesPollen specialists
Pollen specialists · Coreopsis
- Andrena beameri
- Andrena duplicata
- Andrena gardineri
- Colletes birkmanni
- Dianthidium curvatum
- Dianthidium simile
- Megachile parallela
- Megachile pugnata
- Megachile xylocopoides
- Melissodes coreopsis
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- Melissodes subillatus
- Melissodes wheeleri
- Paranthidium jugatorium
- Perdita foveata
- Protandrena albitarsis
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimNo records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Plant details
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Flower color
- Yellow
Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.
Growing sources and scope
- Bloom · “Early July to late October” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia
- Flower color · “Yellow” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Height · “Up to about 28 inches” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Life cycle · “Perennial” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Light · “Full sun (documented habitat)” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia
- primary_flower_color · “yellow” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Soil · “Moist; Wet (documented habitat)” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia
Also known as
Coreopsis angustifolia, Coreopsis gladiata
Conservation status
| Alabama rank | SNR |
|---|---|
| Global rank | G4Q |
| AL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
Will it fit your yard?
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Sources
- Alabama Plant Atlas
- USDA PLANTS
- Vascular Plants of North Carolina (NC Natural Heritage Program)
- NatureServe Explorer
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications