Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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Read more about Spanish Needles at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Bidens bipinnata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens bipinnata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-011:
Bidens bipinnata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Spanish Needles
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Look for it in floodplains, disturbed areas, gardens, fields, roadsides, ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple: 2- or 3-pinnately dissected, the ultimate segments 2-10mm wide
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Absent or Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers neuter or styliferous & sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p120
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p020
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p440
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p127
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p274
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p278
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p328
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p196
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p342
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