Plant Identified!

     My post on 8/21 asking for help identifying a mystery plant in the backlyard prompted one nice note and a guess from a lady in Birmingham, but I decided to go to the authority.
    Libby Rich of Plant Odyssey fame came to the rescue with the following diagnosis!

The plant is a variety of coreopsis, common name "tickseed". Birds love to eat their seed and so you are correct that a bird did the distribution. This plant and others are the parents of our cultivated coreopsis. Next year, rather than allow it to grow so tall, cut it in half and it be strong, sturdy and produce lots more flowers.

Thanks Libby!!!!!!! Let me seriously recommend Plant Odyssey in Birmingham...a real community resource!