Baker's Tickseed (Coreopsis bakeri)

Coreopsis bakeri, Baker's tickseed, flower with a tumbling flower beetle (Family: Mordellidae) visitor.

Photo Credit: Cami Adams

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Asteraceae
State: FL
Nature Serve ID: 960186
Lifeform: Forb/herb, Shrub, Subshrub
Date Inducted in National Collection: 08/23/2022

Description:

Where is Baker's Tickseed (Coreopsis bakeri) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Baker's Tickseed can be found in Florida

Which CPC Partners conserve Baker's Tickseed (Coreopsis bakeri)?

Atlanta Botanical Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 11/16/22

CPC's Plant Sponsorship Program provides long term stewardship of rare plants in our National Collection. We are so grateful for all our donors who have made the Plant Sponsorship Program so successful. We are in the process of acknowledging all our wonderful plant sponsorship donors on our website. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly.

Conservation Actions

Emily Coffey

10/26/2022

Another successful seed collection! In September 2022, Coreopsis bakeri seeds from fifty-eight maternal lines were collected from a rare limestone glade habitat in Jackson County, FL and will be added to conservation seed banks at Atlanta Botanical Garden and the National Laboratory for Genetic Resource Preservation. This effort was led by our Florida-based team members Cami Adams, Field Technician, and Liz Miller, Field Biologist.

Coreopsis bakeri, Baker’s tickseed, is found only in these unique limestone glades in Jackson County and generally flower from March to April. This species is under threat due to the small range of viable habitat and potential competition with another Coreopsis species that can occur in the area, C. lanceolata. During the initial site assessment in April 2022, our team counted over 675 flowering and fruiting individuals.