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 comosa   FAMILY Asteraceae__   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens tripartita   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Bidens tripartita

SYNONYMOUS WITH New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)

Bidens tripartita ssp. comosa

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Bidens tripartita

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-003:

Bidens tripartita   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Bidens comosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Strawstem Beggarticks


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image of Bidens comosa, Strawstem Beggarticks

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_bico3_001_lvd

        

image of Bidens comosa, Strawstem Beggarticks

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_bico3_006_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bidens comosa   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bidens tripartita   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bidens tripartita

SYNONYMOUS WITH New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Bidens tripartita ssp. comosa

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Bidens tripartita

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-70-003:
Bidens tripartita   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bidens comosa

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4480

Forb
Annual

Habitat: marshes, bogs, wet meadows, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in Carolina Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Yellow
Rays: Absent, or rarely present & yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual and fertile

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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