Tall Coreopsis

Description:

"Daisy-like compound flowers appear singly on the upper stems during late summer or early fall. Each composite flower is about 1½–2" across. There are 6-10 yellow ray florets surrounding numerous brown disk florets. There is no floral scent. The blooming period lasts about 1-2 months. The dark achenes are without tufts of hairs. The root system is fibrous and rhizomatous, often forming loose colonies of plants." ~ http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prai...

Habitat:

"Tall Coreopsis is occasional to fairly common in most counties of Illinois. Habitats include moist to mesic black soil prairies, sand prairies, savannas and sandy savannas, thickets, seeps, bluffs, limestone glades, abandoned fields, and along railroads and roadsides. It responds well to fire in areas where shrubby vegetation and trees are encroaching."~ http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prai...

Notes:

This stand of tall coeopsis was "rescued" from the plow. The housing crisis caused a local housing developer to give up plans to expand it's subdivison. Catepiller graders returned scraped off topsoil to fallow land platted for housing which was then rented it out for farming. This stand was transplanted from an area destined for that grading/farming. It has thrived in its new locale.