FlaWildflowerWatch on Instagram: ""Tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii) Spring Bloom: An upright annual or mostly short-lived perennial native to Florida. Plants are 1.5 - 3.0 ft. tall although South Florida’s ecotypes may be significantly shorter. Leaf shape is highly variable, ranging from simple, narrow lance-shaped leaves to narrow, bipinnate compound leaves. Under natural conditions, in Central and South Florida, Leavenworth’s tickseed blooms year round although spring is the peak flowering s