Asteraceae
Stiff greenthread
Thelesperma filifolium
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Thelesperma
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Stiff greenthread
Synonyms
- Coreopsis filifolia Hook.
- Coreopsis trifida Poir.
- Cosmidium burridgeanum Regel
- Cosmidium filifolium (Hook.) Nutt.
- Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium
- Thelesperma filifolium var. intermedium (Rydb.) Shinners
- Thelesperma intermedium Rydb.
- Thelesperma intermedium var. intermedium
- Thelesperma trifidum Britton
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual, Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Kumar Appaiah, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: foamprod, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: MtBotany, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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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.