Bidens laevis |
Bidens frondosa |
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leafy beggars-ticks, sticktight |
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Habit | Plants annual, 1–12+ dm. | |
Stems | erect; simple or branched, glabrous or minutely pustulose. |
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Leaves | leaflets 3–5; leaflets lanceolate to lance-ovate, 2–10+ cm; margins evenly serrate or denticulate; tips acute or acuminate; surfaces glabrous; petioles 1–7 cm. |
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Involucres | hemispheric, 7–12 mm in diameter. |
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Ray florets | 0 or few; rays 2–3 mm; golden-yellow. |
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Disc florets | 20–100+; corollas orange, 2–3 mm. |
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Phyllaries | outer 5–8, mostly ascending to erect; margins often sparsely setose-ciliate; inner 5–9 mm, glabrous. |
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Fruits | obovate or wedge-shaped, 5–10 mm, roughly tuberculate; margins sometimes minutely barbed, pappi of 2 antrorsely or retrorsely barbed awns, 2–5 mm. |
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Heads | few to numerous; solitary and terminal on stems and branches or in corymb-like arrays; erect; peduncles 1–4(8) cm. |
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2n | =24, 48, 72. |
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Bidens laevis |
Bidens frondosa |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Mixed woods, riverbanks, edges of lake and ponds, gravel bars, irrigation ditches, cultivated fields, waste areas, roadsides. Flowering Aug–Sep. 0–1100 m. Casc, Col, CR, Lava, Owy, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; throughout southern Canada and US, northern Mexico; Europe. Native. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 203 Kenton Chambers |
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