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| Scientific Name | Bidens frondosa | USDA PLANTS Symbol | BIFR |
| Common Name | Devil's Beggarticks | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. | 35707 |
| Family | Asteraceae (Sunflower) | SEINet Reference |
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| Description | Habitat: Moist areas in woods, meadows, thickets, fields, roadsides, railroads, streamsides, ponds, sloughs. Plant: Erect, branched annual 20 to 48 inches tall, smooth stems. Leaves: Opposite on petioles 3/8 to 1-3/4 inches long; blades pinnately-compound with 3 to 5 leaflets, each 3/4 to 3-1/8 inches long, lanceolate with serrate margins; the terminal leaflet on a slender stalk (petiolule). Inflorescence: Usually solitary, composite flower heads about 3/8 to 1/2-inch across on peduncles 1-3/4 to 4 inches long; 5 to 8 linear outer phyllaries or bracts, 3/8 to 2 inches long with ciliate margins; 6 to 12 ovate inner bractlets less than 1/4-inch long in a ring wrapped around the flower heads; ray flowers usually lacking but 1 to 3+ golden rays may be present, ~1/8-inch or less long; 20 to 60 disk florets with orange corollas. Blooming Period: August to October. References: "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston and SEINet. |
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Texas Status: Native |
| Scientific Name | Bidens laevis | USDA PLANTS Symbol | BILA |
| Common Name | Smooth Beggarticks | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. | 35711 |
| Family | Asteraceae (Sunflower) | SEINet Reference |
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| Description | Habitat: Wet soils in low places and shallow water, meadows, marshes, and stream banks; from sea level to 9,000 ft. Plant: Erect or prostrate (at base) annual or perennial 12 to 40 inches tall, smooth stems and leaves. Leaves: Opposite or whorled, lanceolate to elliptic, 2 to 4 inches long, sessile with coarsely serrate margins. Inflorescence: Solitary or open corymb-like arrays of showy yellow flowers 1-1/2 to 2-3/4 inches across on peduncles 3/4 to 2-3/8 inches long; 7 or 8 yellow rays and 60 to 100 yellow-orange disk florets; what appear to be narrow green phyllaries supporting the head are actually 5 to 9 bracteoles that are up 3/4-inch and mostly obscuring the actual phyllaries of which there are 8 to 12, ovate to lanceolate-oblong, yellow and often with orange to purplish tips. Blooming Period: August to October. References: "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston and SEINet. |
BONAP Distribution Map |
Texas Status: Native |
