13. Coreopsis Rosea Nutt. Small Rose Or Pink Tickseed

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Coreopsis rosea Nutt. Gen. 2: 179. 1818.

Perennial by slender rootstocks; stems at length much branched, slender, strict, glabrous, 6'-24' high. Leaves opposite, linear, glabrous, entire, obscurely 1-nerved, 1'-2 1/2' long, 1/2'-1" wide, sessile, or the lower petioled; heads slender-peduncled, several or numerous, 6"-12" broad; disk yellow; rays 4-8, pink or rose-colored (occasionally white), oblong to obovate, slightly 3-toothed or sometimes entire; inner bracts of the hemispheric involucre ovate-oblong, acutish or obtuse, glabrous, much longer than the lanceolate outer ones; achenes oblong or linear-oblong, thin, not winged, nearly straight, slightly ribbed on the inner face; pappus a very short truncate crown.

In open swamps, eastern Massachusetts to Georgia, near the coast. July-Aug.