Rewilding My Lot

I have a volunteer plant in the bed behind the house that appears to be a Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata). I did put this plant elsewhere in the garden, and they are known to self-seed, but the one that I planted has only just begun to flower so that can’t be the origin.

I think I finally figured out where it might have come from, based on where it is growing, close to a cluster of three Lyreleaf Sage plants.

These three Lyreleaf Sage plants were transplanted in fall 2023 from a park pollinator garden where I volunteer, and that garden also has Lanceleaf Coreopsis. I suspect that the soil that I brought home with the transplants also contained some Lanceleaf Coreopsis seeds.