Coreopsis flowers "work well in any type of border. Because of their long bloom time, they make great fillers or edgers." This landscape-design idea comes courtesy of About's Gardening Guide, Marie Iannotti, in her resource on coreopsis flowers. The word, "coreopsis," which is the scientific name for the flower, derives from the Greek for "bug-like," due to the resemblance that coreopsis seeds bear to ticks. Indeed, "tickseed" is the common name for coreopsis. But this is a case where the scientific name is more commonly used than the common name! Perhaps this is because retailers feel consumers would shun a plant associated (even if only in name) with ticks, some of which bear Lyme disease. Or it could be that, as scientific names go, "coreopsis" has a rather melodious ring to it.