Bigelow's Tickseed
Coreopsis bigelovii
Also known as: Bigelow's Coreopsis
A spring annual of California's grasslands and desert edges, sending up leafless stalks topped with bright yellow daisies. Carpets open ground after wet winters. Recorded as a minor food plant in Indigenous ethnobotany, without detail on which part was used.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 0.5–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- February, March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- CA, NV
Related native plants
More Coreopsis species
- Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria)
- Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)
- Tall Coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris)
- Greater Tickseed (Coreopsis major)
- Stiff Tickseed (Coreopsis palmata)
- Giant Coreopsis (Coreopsis gigantea)