coreopsis

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coreopsis (kohr-ee-OP-sis) - n., any of several species of American and African composite flowers (genus Coreopsis) cultivated for their yellow, brown, purplish, or yellow-and-red daisy-like flowers.


Can be quite showy. Also called calliopsis and tickseed. Named around 1750 in Latin from Greek roots kore-, stem of kóris, bedbug + -opsis, -like, so named from the shape of seed. This one is a Coreopsis gigantea:


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"Coreopsis has set in!" Pocketa-pocketa-pockata.

---L.