How to grow plains coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
When to plant plains coreopsis
Plains coreopsis is a self-seeding annual that blooms from summer through frost; NC State notes it sows readily onto open, bare ground and does best crowded in mass plantings. The page gives no explicit sowing date, so a spring band is approximate.
Plains Coreopsis is timed by season rather than your frost dates, so the planting calendar does not generate ZIP-specific dates for it. Check the cited sources below to fine-tune for your area.
Growing conditions
- Lifecycle
- Annual
- Sun
- Full sun
- Soil pH
- 6 to 8
Common problems
- aggressive reseeding
- poor drainage
Sources
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