OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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__   Go to FSUS key



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

        

image of Bidens frondosa, Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks

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).

image of Bidens frondosa, Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks

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).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this 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).

image of Bidens frondosa, Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks

JK Marlow    jkm130913_304

September    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

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JK Marlow    jkm170914_0519

September    Henderson County    NC

image of Bidens frondosa, Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks

JK Marlow    jkm170914_0521

September    Henderson County    NC

image of Bidens frondosa, Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks

JK Marlow    jkm170914_0523

September    Henderson County    NC

image of Bidens frondosa, Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks

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).

image of Bidens frondosa, Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks

Roxanna Martin    rlm91111_92

September    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Bidens frondosa, Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks

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).

image of Bidens frondosa, Devil's Beggarticks, Annual Beggarticks

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

 

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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

 

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