Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Bidens cernua
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Nodding Beggarticks at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens cernua
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-002:
Bidens cernua
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Nodding Beggarticks, Nodding Bur-marigold
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bice_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_bice_008_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120920_003
September Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
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JK Marlow jkm120920_009
September Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
6-8 ray flowers to 0.6" long, or none. Disk yellow, hemispheric, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm120920_011
September Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
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JK Marlow jkm120920_014
September Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
Leaves sessile and sometimes connate at the base, usually toothed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm120920_020
September Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
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JK Marlow jkm120920_022
September Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
Lvs sessile, lance-linear to lance-ovate, coarsely serrate to almost entire, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm120920_025
September Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
Outer involucral bracts leafy, typically surpassing the disk, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Bidens and Coreopsis
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Bidens cernua
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens cernua
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-002:
Bidens cernua
FAMILY
Asteraceae
3392
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in NC Piedmont, rare in SC)
Look for it in marshes, wet meadows, bogs, ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
Margins usually coarsely dentate to serrate, sometimes entire, sometimes ciliate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: 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!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p297
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p126
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p279
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p328
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p195