Our 2025 EFN seed catalogue is now live! Featuring over 130 new varieties and over 640 total varieties, sourced from over 50 different growers from across the country. Huge thanks to all of our growers, volunteers, and to our stellar seed-house team in Minnesota! Each of you make this work possible.

Dyer's Coreopsis

Dyer's Coreopsis

Regular price $3.75 Sale

Coreopsis tinctoria

Origin: North America

Improvement status: Breeding population

Seeds per packet: ~60

Germination tested 10/2024: 70%

Life cycle: Annual

This beautiful wildflower native to central and eastern North America has a long history of use as both dye and medicine (and apparently the dried plant can make some sort of coffee substitute as well). A tea made from the root can be used to induce vomiting, and is also used to treat diarrhea. The name comes from its ability to produce a rust or mahogany-colored dye.

Our seed comes from Wild Garden Seeds in Oregon who explain that this population includes both "the species type bicolor-petal (red/yellow) flowers, and stunning crimson and yellow-speckled variations that are garden show-stoppers and pigment rich."

We're excited to have this beautiful native dye plant in our catalogue!