Bidens cernua |
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bident penché, bur-marigold, nodding beggar-ticks, nodding beggars-ticks, nodding beggartick, nodding bur-marigold |
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Habit | Annuals, (2–)20–100(–400+) cm (stems sometimes rooting at proximal nodes). |
Leaves | (rarely in 3s) sessile; blades lance-ovate or oblanceolate to lanceolate or linear, 40–100(–200+) × (2–)5–25(–45+) mm, bases cuneate to rounded, margins usually coarsely dentate to serrate, sometimes entire, sometimes ciliate, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous. |
Peduncles | 10–40(–100+) mm. |
Involucres | ± hemispheric or broader, (3–)6–10 × (8–)12–20+ mm. |
Ray florets | usually 6–8, sometimes 0; laminae orange-yellow, 2–15(–18) mm. |
Disc florets | (10–)40–100(–150+); corollas orange-yellow, 3–4 mm. |
Phyllaries | 6–8+, ovate or lance-ovate to lanceolate, 2–10 mm. |
Calyculi | of (3–)5–8(–10) spreading to reflexed, oblong to lance-linear, often ± foliaceous bractlets or bracts (3–)8–12(–25+) mm, margins usually ciliate, abaxial faces usually glabrous, bases sometimes hispidulous. |
Heads | (erect or nodding at flowering, usually nodding in fruit) borne singly or in open, ± corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | blackish or brown, usually ± flattened, sometimes ± 4-angled, ± cuneate, outer (3–)5–6+ mm, inner 4–8 mm, margins (± thickened or winged) retrorsely ciliate, apices ± truncate to convex, faces ± striate, glabrous or tuberculo-strigillose; pappi of (2–)4, ± erect, retrorsely barbed awns (1–)2–4 mm. |
2n | = 24, 48. |
Bidens cernua |
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Phenology | Flowering late (Jul–)Aug–Sep(–Oct). |
Habitat | Swamps, marshes, peat and sedge bogs, flood plains |
Elevation | 0–2300 m (0–7500 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; ME; MI; MN; MO; MT; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK; YT; Europe; Asia
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Discussion | Bidens cernua is used medicinally to treat urinary-tract infections. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 215. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Coreopsidinae > Bidens |
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Synonyms | B. cernua var. elliptica, B. cernua var. integra, B. cernua var. minima, B. cernua var. oligodonta, B. cernua var. radiata, B. filamentosa, B. glaucescens, B. gracilenta, B. minima, B. prionophylla |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 832. (1753) |
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