Coreopsis pubescensElliott

star tickseed

WFO wfo-0000009404 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Coreopsis pubescens, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. a saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-19 / obs. 159165862
Coreopsis pubescens, photographed by John Kees
fig. b John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 119336584
Coreopsis pubescens, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. c saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159165858
Coreopsis pubescens, photographed by pamelabarnabee
fig. d pamelabarnabee, CC0 1.0 / obs. 142352228
Coreopsis pubescens, photographed by John Kees
fig. e John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 119336563
Coreopsis pubescens, photographed by Brandon Wheeler
fig. f Brandon Wheeler, CC0 1.0 / obs. 43336036
Coreopsis pubescens, photographed by pamelabarnabee
fig. g pamelabarnabee, CC0 1.0 / obs. 142352279
Coreopsis pubescens, photographed by Edie
fig. h Edie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136735504

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Coreopsis pubescens is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia AlabamaArkansasConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisKansasKentuckyLouisianaMassachusettsMississippiMissouriNorth CarolinaOklahomaSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexasVirginiaWest Virginia
Native distribution of Coreopsis pubescens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Connecticut CNT
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Massachusetts MAS
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
North Carolina NCA
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chrysomelea auriculata (L.) Tausch
  • Coreopsis pubescens var. debilis (Sherff) E.B.Sm.
  • Coreopsis pubescens var. pubescens
  • Coreopsis pubescens var. robusta A.Gray ex Eames
  • Coreopsis pubescens var. typica Sherff

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.