Hundredfold Plains Coreopsis 500 Wildflower Seeds - Coreopsis tinctoria Golden Tickseed, Goldenwave, Produce Prolific Showy Flowers

• It does well in wildflower meadows
• Flowers boiled in water makes a red liquid used as a beverage
• Flowers attract beneficial insects, and seeds feed songbirds
• Was used for a source of yellow and red dyes

Coreopsis tinctoria produces showy masses of red-highlighted yellow flowers. Though considered an annual, it may bloom two to three years before dying. This prevailingly western annual has escaped from cultivation in the East. It is widespread in the West and the South in disturbed areas, such as moist ditches.