Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bidens frondosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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Read more about Devil's Beggarticks at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens frondosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Bidens frondosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-005:
Bidens frondosa FAMILY Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bidens frondosa
COMMON NAME:
Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bifr_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_bifr_006_lvd
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_379
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JK Marlow jkm120812_513
August Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Leaves with 3-5 lanceolate acuminate serrate leaflets; petiole 1-6cm, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Gill Newberry gn09_bidens_frondosa
September
Outer bracts 5-8, rarely an individual head w more, usually sparsely ciliate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Bidens and Coreopsis
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JK Marlow jkm120910_626
September Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm130913_301
September Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
About 8 leafy outer bracts, which greatly exceed the disk, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm130913_304
September Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm170914_0519
September Henderson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm170914_0521
September Henderson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm170914_0523
September Henderson County NC
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Roxanna Martin rlm91111_81
September Spartanburg County SC
Each flower head surrounded by 5-9 narrow leaflike bracts, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).
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Roxanna Martin rlm91111_92
September Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm081103_087
November Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Achenes with a pappus of two barbed awns, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm081103_091b
November Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bidens frondosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens frondosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Bidens frondosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-005:
Bidens frondosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bidens frondosa
207
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Fields, pastures, wet meadows, swamp forests, ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3(5) leaflets
Opposite
Petioles 1-4(6)cm long
Leaflets have petiolules.
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!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p120
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p440
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p310
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p126
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p061
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p328
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p196
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