garden tickseed
golden tickseed
calliopsis
plains coreopsis

Common names include calliopsis and tickseed, a name shared with various other plants.

Plains coreopsis or calliopsis, Coreopsis tinctoria, is an annual forb.

Besides candytuft, there will be four o'clocks, Mexican hats, calliopsis, California poppies, larkspurs, poppies and moonflowers as well as morning glories.

The plant is common to Canada, Northeast Mexico, much of the United States, especially the Great Plains and Southern states where it is often called "calliopsis."

Butterfly weed, Joe Pye weed, coreopsis, calliopsis, rudbeckias and other plants that survive in their native American prairie or meadow habitats without benefit of water, except that falling from the heavens, will show the same stamina in a garden.

Plains coreopsis or calliopsis, Coreopsis tinctoria, is an annual forb.

Plains coreopsis is cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardens, and as a native plant for wildlife gardens and natural landscaping.

Cultivars Because of its easy growing habits and the bright, showy flowers of cultivars such as 'Roulettte' (tiger stripes of gold on a deep mahogany ground), plains coreopsis is increasingly used for landscape beautification and in flower gardens.