When I planted a packet of native wildflower seeds last year, I was pleasantly surprised by the range of flowers that bloomed throughout the summer and into the fall: blue and pink Bachelor’s Button, yellow-fringed orange-centered Gailliarda, and the white flowers of Sweet Allysum.
But one of my favorites is the long-flowering Plains Coreopsis.
With its deep maroon center on yellow petals, the Plains Coreopsis loves the heat.
Added bonus: it blooms from June through late September.
Since it’s an annual flower, I wasn’t sure if it would return this year. I learned that it will reseed on its own, given there’s bare soil.
With our strange weather in winter 2021-22, we had bouts of warm weather followed by cold but without a lot of snow cover to insulate the ground.
Many of my plants didn’t survive the warm/cold weather swings.
As I discovered the first week of June when they started blooming this year, I shouldn’t have been worried about the Plains Coreopsis returning!
