Coreopsis tinctoria Radiata Mix | Calliopsis | Tickseed
Coreopsis tinctoria Radiata Mix | Calliopsis | Tickseed
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This is Coreopsis tinctoria, also known as Plains Coreopsis, Calliopsis, and Tickseed. This Annual is a great choice if you want to attract birds, bees, and butterflies. They just love it. Growing at most about 3 feet high, this plant should be planted somewhere where it can get full sun or at least partial shade. This is a known nectar plant for the Common Buckeye, Southern Dogface, Gorgone Checkerspot, Queen, Monarch, Dainty Sulphur, Aarons Skipper, Poweshiek Skipperling, Clouded Sulphur, and Eastern Tailed-Blue butterflies, and the Red-waisted Florella moth. It is also the larval host plant for the Agonopterix atrodorsella moth.
Crotalaria spectabilis | Rattlebox | Showy Rattlepod | Cats Bell
Crotalaria spectabilis | Rattlebox | Showy Rattlepod | Cats Bell
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These seeds were collected from Crotalaria spectabilis, also known as Rattlebox, Showy Rattlepod, and Cats Bell. These annuals like to live in full sun where they grow to about 2 feet tall. The bright yellow and gold flowers are out from the late summer until the middle of the winter where they attract a wide variety of birds, bees, and butterflies. Crotalaria in general are larval host plants for the Bella Moth. This annual can be grown in any USDA Hardiness Zone and is a tender perennial in Zones 9 to 11.