What is Calliopsis?

Calliopsis, also called Plains Coreopsis, is an annual flowering plant originating from the southeastern United States, where it grows wild in wet meadows, along ditches and culverts and open areas. The popularity of this plant in gardens and other cultivated areas leads to its escape and naturalization, although most of the United States. Callopsis has open yellow flowers with a brick red interior. The scientific name is coreopsis tinctoria and is a member of the Asteraceae or Aster family.

Individual plants grow 1 to 3 feet (about 30 to 90 cm) high and 1.5 feet (about 45 cm) wide on slender green branches. Narrow green leaves grow to about 3 inches (7 cm) long and cluster around the base and the lower half of the stem. The flowers bloom at the beginning of summer and continue to the beginning of autumn. Open, simple flowers are affected with yellow on the outer half and brick red in the inner half of each petal. Though this plant is the class CALLiopsis, which has an annual, can bloom for two or three years in a row from the same root supply.

Calliopsis is a popular annual landscape. It is particularly effective as the boundaries around other annuals and perennials, planted by EN under landscape trees and in cultivated wild areas of the garden or landscape. This perennial annual prosper in wet soil, but also tolerant drought, which makes it a suitable solution for dry areas and areas with poor soil conditions.

seeds are collected in the autumn, four weeks after flowers start to disappear on the plant. The seeds can be reset or stored during the winter and spring in the autumn. This plant spreads from seeds and returns year after year with small or no encouragement. To control Calliopsis spread, flowers are removed from the plant before they get into the seed. Flower monitoring also encouraging flowering throughout the summer and early autumn. Cluster division in autumn is an alternative method of spreading.

bright flowers Calliopsis attract butterflies to the summer garden, as well as bees and other beneficial pollinating insects. The seed birds are attracted to flowers in the autumn when the plants go to the seeds. Calliopsis is also considered to be deer, which makes it good for areas that are plagued by herbivore.