Editing Coreopsis (section)

==Description==
These plants range from {{convert|46|–|120|cm|0|abbr=off}} in height. The flowers are usually yellow with a toothed tip, but can also be yellow-and-red bicolor or pink.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://mtcubacenter.org/trials/coreopsis/|title=Coreopsis For the Mid-Atlantic Region Research Report|date=December 2015|access-date=27 January 2017}}</ref> They have showy flower heads with involucral [[bract]]s in two distinct series of eight each, the outer being commonly connate at the base. The flat fruits are small and dry and look like insects.

There are nearly 40 species of ''Coreopsis'', all of which are [[native plant|native]] to [[North America|North]], [[Central America|Central]], and [[South America]].<ref name = powo/> The name ''Coreopsis'' is derived from the [[Ancient Greek]] words {{lang|grc|κόρις}} ({{Translation|grc|koris}}), meaning "[[Bed bug|bedbug]]", and {{lang|grc|ὄψις}} ({{Translation|grc|opsis}}), meaning "view", referring to the shape of the [[achene]].<ref name=Kim>{{cite journal |title=ITS sequences and phylogenetic relationships in ''Bidens'' and ''Coreopsis'' (Asteraceae) |first=Seung-Chul |last=Kim |author2=Daniel J. Crawford |author3=Mesfin Tadesse |author4=Mary Berbee |author5=Fred R. Ganders |author6=Mona Pirseyedi |author7=Elizabeth J. Esselman  |date=July–September 1999 |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=480–493 |doi=10.2307/2419701|jstor=2419701 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esMPU5DHEGgC  |first=Umberto |last=Quattrocchi |title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: A-C |year=2000 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-2675-2 |page=615}}</ref>