Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of plants, of the natural order Compositæ. Most of the species are herbaceous perennials, with opposite leaves and yellow or party-colored rays. The fruit is an achene, flat on one side and convex on the other, slightly winged, and usually has two or three awns, but often none. The genus is closely related to Bidens, which differs from it in having the achene always awned and the awns barbed. There are over 50 species, mostly of the United States and Mexico, with some in the Andes, South Africa, and the Sandwich islands. Several of the American species are in common cultivation for their showy, handsome flowers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. Coreopsis tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America
Examples
“Coreopsis 'Redshift' - give it sun and excellent drainage and your days will be brighened by these cheery red-and-yellow daisies all summer long.”
“The lilies in the centers are new last year and Coreopsis ‘Zagreb’ was added as filler.”
“I quite trying with the fancy Coreopsis ones, but we do have Moonbeam.”
“Coreopsis verticillata ‘Zagreb’ has been added to edge the walk and encouraged to spread to the rest of the sunny areas.”
“The mix they usually use in Texas contains Bluebonnets, Indian Paintbrush, Coreopsis, and Gaillardia or Indian Blanket.”
“Frances, I think Aster Yellows may also affect Coreopsis.”
“Several years ago I had Coreopsis lanceolata growing in the corner bed that kept producing this kind of abnormal blooms.”
“Shown here with the Cerastium and Coreopsis ‘Zagreb’.”
“It might be too short but I bought coreopsis midget seeds Coreopsis tinctoria that get about 10 inches tall last year.”
“For example, eastern forb species such as Liatris pycnostachya and Coreopsis grandiflora are largely limited to the alfisols of the Eastern Marginal prairies, while grasses such as Bouteloua hirsuta and Muhlenbergia reverchonii, as well as a diversity of species in the genus Dalea are generally found on the mollisols of the White Rock Cuesta.”
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