Strawstem Beggar-Ticks

Scientific Name:   Bidens tripartita
Altenative names, synonyms, exist for this plant. See RPC Plant Details and check the refernce websites for additional information.


Alternate Scientific Name (Synonym):  Bidens comosa

Plants are zoochorous (dispersed by animals), their seeds sticking to fur, feathers, or clothing to be carried to new habitat. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Strawstem Beggar-Ticks


Genus species: Bidens tripartita
     Synonym: Bidens comosa
Common Name: Strawstem Beggar-Ticks
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Yellow
Identified by:M. Becus
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