Coreopsis tinctoria

Calliopsis

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Calliopsis is a naturalized perennial found in the Central Valley, Central Western, and Southwestern California bioregions in disturbed places at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces yellow and red-orange flowers with ray petals 6 to 20 millimeters long and distinctive red-orange disk centers. Growing with erect, much-branched stems 30 to 120 centimeters tall, it forms an open, leafy plant with multiple branches. Its leaves are divided, with lower leaves having 1 to 2 levels of narrow linear lobes while upper leaves remain simple and linear. The fruit is small, linear to elliptic, and black with no distinctive pappus.

Habitat: Disturbed places, escaped from cultivation

Bloom period: Generally Jun-Sep

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: GV, CW, SW

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.