Tickseed sunflower

[s219]

One of our fields (which gets hogged once a year every October/November) has been taken over with tickseed sunflower and looks (and smells) beautiful. Neighbors keep asking what flower it is and where I got the seed, but I had nothing to do with it (would never look that good if I did it on purpose).

I am amazed how thick this stuff got in just one summer. Was not there last year, at least not in a noticeable amount. Makes me wonder how a field can get taken over with a new species in the course of just on season. The seed had to come from somewhere. My best guess is that maybe it rode in on the bush hog last fall, coming from the last place that was mowed.

 

[oosik]

That is a very pretty flower. Not a variety we have here. Folks here call our Arrow Leaf Balsam root - sunflower. But it's not. The true sunflower blooms a month or so later here. That's one real fine job of seeding.

 

[wngsprd]

We have a "patch" of it in one of our fields...and it grows wild along many of our roads here...we look forward to it at the end of every summer. We call it Tickseed, and its proper name is Coreopsis.

S219, you have a real nice stand.