Broadleaf Tickseed

Silphidium latifolium is a North American species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name broad-leaved tickseed. It is the sole species in genus Silphidium. It is native to the southeastern United States, primarily in the southern Appalachians of the states of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

The species was first described as Coreopsis latifolia by André Michaux in 1803. In 2023 Mesfin Tadesse and Daniel J. Crawford placed the species in the new genus Silphidium as Silphidium latifolium.