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Forb
Annual/Short-lived perennial

Non-native: adventive from the New World tropics

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon in GA-SC, rare in NC

Look for it in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

To see a detailed map, click here

 

...Variable

LEAVES:
Simple: mostly 1-pinnately lobed
Opposite
Margins serrate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: Absent or White
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers neuter or styliferous & sterile
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p120
• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p204
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p125?
• Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p084

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Bidens alba var. radiata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens alba var. radiata   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-012:
Bidens pilosa   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Bidens pilosa