Bloom Color

Golden Yellow

Interesting Notes

I love moonbeam coreopsis. It blooms spring to fall, with just occasional shearing back. You can dig up a plant in the spring, divide the root system into several pieces, and each one bushes out into a beautiful, full plant. The lemony yellow is so bright and cheerful and its mounded habit is neat and appealing. http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1050467.html

In 1990, 20 plants were planted in the low water zone in sun and 44 were planted in part shade in the moderate water zone. In 1992, another group of 32 was planted in shade in another area of the moderate water zone. In the low water zone 10 plants died during the winters of 1993/1994 and 1994/1995, and exhibited severe crown injury in 1992 and 1994. This group scores an overall evaluation rating of 72.7 percent. The moderate-water-zone group planted in 1990 had slight crown injury in 1995. Slight leaf wilt and scorch has been exhibited. The other group in the moderate zone had 10 winter deaths in 1996 and exhibited fair fall color for the only time. The two groups in the moderate water zone score an average overall evaluation rating of 77.5 percent. At all locations aesthetic quality is fair, except during the full bloom period when the flower effect scores are high enough to bring up the overall quality ratings. During past years health ratings have fallen to fair as the plants continue to decline. These plants have had no insect or disease pests and very few problems, but do not seem to thrive here at the XERISCAPE DEMONSTRATION GARDEN. It is unknown if it is only soil-related and/or not quite enough water. Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' does grow well in our area and is a nice, small coreopsis. http://www.csu.org/cgi-bin/xeri/Xeriinclude?Xeridetail?PIS-cmp

I love moonbeam coreopsis. It blooms spring to fall, with just occasional shearing back. You can dig up a plant in the spring, divide the root system into several pieces, and each one bushes out into a beautiful, full plant. The lemony yellow is so bright and cheerful and its mounded habit is neat and appealing. http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1050467.html

In 1990, 20 plants were planted in the low water zone in sun and 44 were planted in part shade in the moderate water zone. In 1992, another group of 32 was planted in shade in another area of the moderate water zone. In the low water zone 10 plants died during the winters of 1993/1994 and 1994/1995, and exhibited severe crown injury in 1992 and 1994. This group scores an overall evaluation rating of 72.7 percent. The moderate-water-zone group planted in 1990 had slight crown injury in 1995. Slight leaf wilt and scorch has been exhibited. The other group in the moderate zone had 10 winter deaths in 1996 and exhibited fair fall color for the only time. The two groups in the moderate water zone score an average overall evaluation rating of 77.5 percent. At all locations aesthetic quality is fair, except during the full bloom period when the flower effect scores are high enough to bring up the overall quality ratings. During past years health ratings have fallen to fair as the plants continue to decline. These plants have had no insect or disease pests and very few problems, but do not seem to thrive here at the XERISCAPE DEMONSTRATION GARDEN. It is unknown if it is only soil-related and/or not quite enough water. Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' does grow well in our area and is a nice, small coreopsis. http://www.csu.org/cgi-bin/xeri/Xeriinclude?Xeridetail?PIS-cmp

Growing and Maintenance Tips

Full sun to part shade in average to dry soils that are well drained. An extremely tolerant plant. Does well in poor rocky soils. Tolerant of humidity, heat, and dry conditions. Spreads by both rhizomes and seeds but is not obnoxiously invasive.