There's nothing like the sprawling beauty and fresh air of an open prairie teeming with wildflowers. Tickseed, or the plant ...

Vaningen’s species is plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria). The most commonly grown species is known as large-flowered tickseed (Coreopsis grandiflora). Coreopsis gets its common name from the ...

It refers to the coreopsis achenes or seeds, which are small, black, and resemble ticks or insects. Tinctoria stems from the ...