NameThatPlant.net: Bidens vulgata

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bidens vulgata FAMILY Asteraceae__ Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Tall Beggarticks at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens vulgata FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Bidens vulgata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-004:

Bidens vulgata FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Bidens vulgata

COMMON NAME:
Tall Beggarticks

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image of Bidens vulgata, Tall Beggarticks

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bivu_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bidens vulgata FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens vulgata FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Bidens vulgata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-004:
Bidens vulgata FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bidens vulgata

2218

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Fields, marshes, wet places, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in Carolinas

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CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)

LEAVES:
Simple: usually laciniately (raggedly) pinnatisect (pinnately cleft to the midrib)
Opposite
Petioles 1-5cm long

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Yellow
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p126

“To learn how to observe and how to distinguish things correctly, is the greater part of education, and is that in which people otherwise well educated are apt to be surprisingly deficient. Natural objects, everywhere present and endless in variety, afford the best field for practice; and the study when young, first of Botany, and afterwards of other Natural Sciences, as they are called, is the best training that can be in these respects. This study ought to begin even before the study of language. For to distinguish things scientifically (that is, carefully and accurately) is simpler than to distinguish ideas. And in Natural History the learner is gradually led from the observation of things, up to the study of ideas or the relations of things.” — Asa Gray, in How Plants Grow: A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany

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