Asteraceae
Greater tickseed
Coreopsis major
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Coreopsis
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Common names
By language (4)
- Bulgarian
- Голям кореопсис
- Chinese
- 大叶金鸡菊
- English
- Greater tickseed
- Russian
- Кореопсис большой
Synonyms
- Chrysostemma senifolium Shuttl ex Walp.
- Coreopsis major f. major
- Coreopsis major var. major
- Coreopsis major var. rigida F.E.Boynton
- Coreopsis major var. stellata B.L.Rob.
- Coreopsis oemleri Elliott
- Coreopsis senifolia Michx.
- Coreopsis senifolia var. rigida Nutt.
- Coreopsis senifolia var. senifolia
- Coreopsis senifolia var. stellata (Nutt.) Torr. & A.Gray
- Coreopsis stellata Nutt.
Flowers
- In flower
- May to August (from 962 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos

Photo: Brucewinter, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Jonathan Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Brucewinter, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: bickleyks, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: ava.ford, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
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Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Bruce Eash, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF Photo: Kat L., CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF Photo: Janet Spletzer, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.