Coreopsis auriculata L.

Perennial with slender naked stolons or stoloniform rhizomes; stems erect or ascending, 1–6 dm, leafy below; lvs petiolate, the blade ovate to broadly elliptic or suborbicular, to 8 × 3.5 cm, often with a pair of much smaller lateral lobes at base; heads solitary or few, on long, naked peduncles; disk yellow, 7–15 mm wide; outer bracts ca 8, lance-oblong or ovate-oblong, often narrowly thin-margined; inner bracts longer and more acute, ovate; rays yellow, 1.5–2.5 cm; receptacular bracts narrowly linear, attenuate upwards; disk-cors 5-toothed; style appendages cuspidately acute; achenes 2–3 mm, the rather narrow wings finally cartilaginous and involute; pappus of 2 minute, deciduous scales; 2n=24. Woods; Va. and Ky. to Fla. and La. Apr.–June.

Rich calcareous hardwoods and openings. Roadsides and other openings in woods, pine barrens at elevations of 10-500 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.