Calliopsis; Plains Coreopsis; Golden Tickseed; Ojos De Gato; Golden Tick Seed

Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria

Found in streambanks, riverbanks, roadsides and other disturbed places. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Not native

Not native to Virginia. How scores work Is it native here?

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

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Recorded in 32 Virginia counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement.

Named place / source context. Shown: Watauga Falls, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Watauga Falls, Illustrator/engraver not confidently attributed; reproduced in Zeigler and Grosscup, The Heart of the Alleghanies (1883), 1883. Public domain. Source record.

Habitats

Streams, rivers and their banks; roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. All habitats

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

7CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including VA

Genus host records with ranges including VA · Coreopsis

Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
Suleima helianthanaSunflower Bud Moth
Synchlora aerataWavy-Lined Emerald, Camouflaged Looper
Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
Tornos scolopacinariaDimorphic Gray
Agonopterix atrodorsella

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

—BeesSoutheastern regional records

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

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

—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: ASTERACEAE

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Conservation status

Virginia rank	SNA
Global rank	G5T5
VA status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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