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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Coreopsis

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Heliantheae

About 114 species, found in North and South America and in Africa. Two species are naturalised in southern Africa and another two species are cultivated in the region.

Species naturalised in southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI) and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Coreopsis lanceolata

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Coreopsis tinctoria

 

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Coreopsis grandiflora

Native to North America.

 

Coreopsis maritima

Native to California.