Family: Asteraceae
High Risk Traits:
- Broad climate suitability (Can grow in >5 hardiness zones)
- Widely naturalized
- An agricultural and environmental weed
- Other Coreopsis species have become invasive
- Tolerates a wide range of soil conditions
- Seeds freely
- Capable of vegetative reproduction through vigorous rhizomatous growth
- Capable to reach maturity in one growing season
- Seeds dispersed intentionally by people, by wind, water movement, and in soil
- Tolerates cutting and mechanical damage
Low Risk Traits:
- A temperate to marginally subtropical species (may only be invasive at higher elevation in tropics)
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- Palatable to goats
- Not reported to be toxic
- Requires full sun
- Self-incompatible
- Used as an ornamental and to attract and benefit pollinators
- Herbicides may provide effective control