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leafy beggars-ticks, sticktight

Habit Plants annual, 1–12+ dm.
Stems

erect; simple or branched, glabrous or minutely pustulose.

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.

Involucres

hemispheric, 7–12 mm in diameter.

Ray florets

0 or few;

rays 2–3 mm; golden-yellow.

Disc florets

20–100+;

corollas orange, 2–3 mm.

Phyllaries

outer 5–8, mostly ascending to erect;

margins often sparsely setose-ciliate; inner 5–9 mm, glabrous.

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.

Heads

few to numerous; solitary and terminal on stems and branches or in corymb-like arrays; erect;

peduncles 1–4(8) cm.

2n

=24, 48, 72.

Bidens laevis

Bidens frondosa

Distribution
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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.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 203
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
B. beckii, B. cernua, B. frondosa, B. tripartita, B. vulgata
B. beckii, B. cernua, B. tripartita, B. vulgata
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