Flowers For Beneficial Insects – Coreopsis
  • October 3, 2018
  • Posted by: Mike McQueen, Charles Ray, and Kerry Smith
  • in Lawn & Garden
Coreopsis
Coreopsis

*This is an excerpt from Top 10 Most Wanted Bugs in Your Garden, ANR-2283.

AKA: Coreopsis sp.

In this flower the yellow center or disc flowers stand out distinctly from the ray flowers, which appear to be attached just below them. Ray flowers are four-lobed. The yellow, daisy-like flowers occur singly atop long stems. Blooms in the summer.

Mike McQueen, Regional Extension Agent, Home Grounds, Gardens and Home Pests; Charles Ray, Research Fellow, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University; and Kerry Smith, State Master Gardener Program Coordinator, Auburn University

Reviewed November 2021, Top 10 Most Wanted Bugs in Your Garden, ANR-2283

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