Description: | Vivided gold and red marked fun flowers. |
Pronunciation: | (kor-ee-OP-sis) |
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plant
type:
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Annuals |
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Hardiness
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Sunlight:
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needs full sun for best flower production, shaded gardens produce weak stemmed plants |
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Moisture:
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average |
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Soil
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average |
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Media:
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Temperature:
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Flowers:
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vivid gold and red star shaped flowers, flowers in flushes, petals (actually ray flowers) look tubular |
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Foliage:
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ferny foliage |
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Dimensions:
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1.5-2 feet tall, mine reached between 12 and 16 inches, use a close spacing so the plants support each other |
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Maintenance:
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weak stemmed, I needed to stake mine, flowers in flushes so dead heading helps improve plants appearance and flower production, I dead headed by grabbing a bunch of the thin spent flower stems and snipping them all at once, individual flower dead heading is laborious,can be an aggressive re-seeder |
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Propagation:
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easy from seeds |
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Origin & History:
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Coreopsis is derived from Greek corio-(bug)and -opsis (likeness) components with reference to the appearance of the seed.(www.plantlives.com) syn Calliopsis tinctoria |
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Notes
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References: #51-Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials (Alan Arimitage),#76-Annuals for Every Purpose (Larry Hodgson)
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