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Mississippi State Wildflower

 Coreopsis auriculata; photo by BlueRidgeKitties on Flickr (noncommercial use permitted with attribution / share alike)

Coreopsis

Mississippi designated coreopsis as the official state wildflower in 1991. Coreopsis (the common name is tickseed) is a group of 35 species of flowering plants. Twenty-eight species of coreopsis are native to North America and the others come from Central and South America. Coreopsis ranges in color from golden to pink.

Source
Mississippi Symbols (pdf): MS Secretary of State
Reference
State Symbols: MS.gov

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