Coreopsis
Coreopsis ( /ˌkɒriːˈɒpsɨs/;[4] common names include tickseed and calliopsis) is a genus of herbs in the family Asteraceae. This group of plants is related to sunflower. The plants may be from one and a half feet to four feet (46 to 120 centimeters) high. The flat fruits are small and dry and look like bugs. Many of its 35 to 114[5] species are cultivated. Twenty-eight species are native to North America and the others come from Central and South America. The flowers are usually yellow with a toothed tip. They have showy flower heads with involucral bracts in two distinct series of eight each, the outer being commonly connate at the base. The name Coreopsis is derived from the Greek words κορις (koris), meaning "bedbug," and ὄψις (opsis), meaning "view," referring to the shape of the achene.[6]
Coreopsis species are used as food plants by the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora acamtopappi.
Coreopsis is closely related to Bidens. In fact, neither Coreopsis nor Bidens, as defined in the 20th century, is monophyletic. One group which does seem to be monophyletic consists of temperate species from North America, including five sections of Coreopsis, Bidens coronata and Bidens tripartita, and the genus Thelesperma (five species).[2]
All Coreopsis species were designated the state wildflower of Florida in the United States in 1991.[7]
Classification
One classification of the genus into sections is:
- Coreopsis sect. Calliopsis
- Coreopsis sect. Coreopsis
- Coreopsis sect. Eublepharis
- Coreopsis sect. Gyrophyllum
- Coreopsis sect. Leptosyne
- Coreopsis sect. Pugiopappus
- Coreopsis sect. Silphidium
- Coreopsis sect. Tuckermannia[3]
Selected species
Formerly placed here
- Bidens alba (L.) DC. (as C. alba L.)
- Bidens aristosa (Michx.) Britton (as C. aristosa Michx.)
- Bidens aurea (Aiton) Sherff (as C. aurea Aiton)
- Bidens mitis (Michx.) Sherff (as C. mitis Michx.)
- Bidens trichosperma (Michx.) Britton (as C. trichosperma Michx.)
- Cosmos bipinnatus Cav. (as C. formosa Bonato)
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- Cosmos parviflorus (Jacq.) Pers. (as C. parviflora Jacq.)
- Iostephane heterophylla (Cav.) Hemsl. (as C. heterophylla Cav.)
- Simsia amplexicaulis (Cav.) Pers. (as C. amplexicaulis Cav.)
- Simsia foetida (Cav.) S.F.Blake (as C. foetida Cav.)
- Thelesperma filifolium (Hook.) A.Gray (as C. filifolia Hook.)
- Verbesina alternifolia (L.) Britton ex Kearney (as C. alternifolia L.)[8]
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References
- ^ a b Coreopsideae (and pages for containing groups), Tree of Life Web Project, last updated 2008
- ^ a b Crawford, D. J.; Mort, M. E. (2005). "Phylogeny of Eastern North American Coreopsis (Asteraceae-Coreopsideae): insights from nuclear and plastid sequences, and comments on character evolution". American Journal of Botany 92 (2): 330–6. doi:10.3732/ajb.92.2.330. PMID 21652409.
- ^ a b "Genus: Coreopsis L.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. January 6, 2011. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?14101. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
- ^ Kim, Seung-Chul; Daniel J. Crawford, Mesfin Tadesse, Mary Berbee, Fred R. Ganders, Mona Pirseyedi, and Elizabeth J. Esselman (September–July 1999). "ITS sequences and phylogenetic relationships in Bidens and Coreopsis (Asteraceae)". Systematic Botany 24 (3): 480–493. doi:10.2307/2419701.
- ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: A-C. CRC Press. p. 615. ISBN 9780849326752. http://books.google.com/?id=esMPU5DHEGgC.
- ^ Main, Martin B.; Ginger M. Allen. "Florida State Symbols". Electronic Data Information Source. University of Florida IFAS Extension. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw209. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- ^ a b "Species Records of Coreopsis". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?14101. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- ^ "Coreopsis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=37123. Retrieved June 6, 2010.