Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Bidens connata
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Weakley (2020) splits this taxon out from B. comosa, which was also split out a while back from B. tripartita! Thus, this species complex is somewhat unsettled. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens connata
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Bidens tripartita
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Bidens connata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Bidens connata
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-003?:
Bidens tripartita FAMILY Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bidens connata
COMMON NAME:
Purplestem Beggarticks
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bico3_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_bico3_006_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm210813_2758
August Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210813_2762
August Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210907_3586
September Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
The stems are light green to purple, more or less terete, and glabrous, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm240911_0997
September Greenville County SC
Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, margins entire or dentate to serrate, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm240911_1024
September Greenville County SC
Usually no ray florets, but if they do occur, they are few and insignificant, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm211012_4280
October Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
Each achene has 4 barbed awns, 2 longer outer awns and 2 shorter inner awns, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm211012_4285
October Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm211012_4286
October Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
3-8 green, leafy, glabrous, oblanceolate, elliptic, or oblong bracts, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm211012_4287
October Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
The inner awns are fragile, so some achenes will have only 2-3 awns, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Bidens connata
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens connata
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Bidens tripartita
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Bidens connata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Bidens connata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-003?:
Bidens tripartita
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bidens connata
4479
Forb
Annual
Habitat: marshes, bogs, wet meadows, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in GA) (rare in NC Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire or dentate to serrate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Yellow
Rays: Absent, or rarely present & yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual and fertile
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
If a search such as "Carex leptalea var. leptalea" doesn't deliver the results you want, try "Carex leptalea".
Or, to minimize chances of a misspelling, try just "Carex le".
Less is more: If "pencil flower" doesn't deliver the results you want, try "pencil".