Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' - WHORLED TICKSEED 'MOONBEAM'

Superb cultivar, easy to grow, favorite and often-used perennial that's highly recommended by the Mt. Cuba research center:

    - in comparison to its cousin 'Zagreb', 'Moonbeam' offer airy, wide clumps that open almost like a vase ('Zagreb' is strictly upright)
    - it offers dense, ground-covering growth in full sun, and ornamental, needle-like, fragrant leaves
    - it's a long flowering perennial with bigger, pale yellow flowers from early to late summer (nearly the whole summer). If cut back as it finishes blooming, it will set up a new flush of blooms. Great cut flower as a bonus!
    - long-lived, very tough and reliable performer
    - attracts butterflies, bees, songbirds and is deer resistant

Excellent perennial for public and private gardens - borders, naturalized areas, native plant gardens, water-wise landscaping, deer resistant plantings, rock gardens, butterfly gardens or cottage gardens. Good plant for areas with poor, dry soils. Highly valued by professional landscapers, hobby gardeners, and beginners too.

Can be combined with many common perennials and wildflowers, too - it looks great with Asclepias tuberosa, Asters, Echinacea purpurea or Echinacea tennesseensis, Stokesia laevis, grasses, Paeonia, Achillea millefolium, Hemerocallis, Perovskia, hardy Geraniums, etc.

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Blooming Time: June to August
Size: 18" tall x 24" wide
USDA Zones: 3 to 9
Culture: full to half sun, average garden soils, drained or shallow, rocky soil (will not grow in wet or waterlogged clay)
Moisture Needs:dry to medium
Origin: the parent species, Coreopsis verticillata, is native to the eastern U. S. from Massachusetts to Florida and west to Arkansas (see USDA distribution map) - it grows in open rocky dry woods, open pine woods, margins, pine and oak savannas
Deer/Rabbit Resistant:yes / no
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators:yes / yes
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot