Bidens tripartita |
Bidens bigelovii |
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bident à trois divisions, three-lobed beggar-ticks, three-lobed beggars-ticks, three-part beggarticks, threelobe beggarticks, tickseed |
Bigelow beggarticks, Bigelow's beggarticks, stickseed |
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Habit | Annuals, (5–)20–70(–200) cm. | Annuals, (10–)20–80+ cm. |
Leaves | sessile or petioles 5–15(–35+) mm (± winged); blades ± elliptic to ovate or lanceolate, 40–80(–150+) × 15–40(–60+) mm, sometimes laciniately 1-pinnatisect with 1–4+ lobes near bases, bases cuneate, margins entire or dentate to serrate, usually ciliate, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or hirtellous. |
petioles 5–25 mm; blades rounded-deltate overall, 25–90+ × 15–35+ mm, (1–)2(–3)-pinnatisect, ultimate lobes lance-rhombic or ovate to lanceolate, 15–30(–50+) × 5–15(–30+) mm, bases truncate to cuneate, ultimate margins entire or ± serrate to incised, usually ciliolate, apices obtuse to acuminate, faces glabrous. |
Peduncles | 10–40(–80) mm. |
(10–)30–50(–150+) mm. |
Involucres | campanulate to hemispheric or broader, (4–)5–7(–12) × (3–)6–12(–15+) mm. |
± campanulate, 2.5–5+ × 1.5–3(–4) mm. |
Ray florets | usually 0, sometimes 1–5; laminae orange yellowish, 4–8 mm. |
0 or 1(–5+); laminae whitish, 1–3(–7) mm. |
Disc florets | (5–)20–60(–150+); corollas pale yellow to orange, (2–)3–4 mm (gradually ampliate, anthers usually pale). |
13–25+; corollas yellowish, 1–2 mm. |
Phyllaries | (6–)7–8(–13), elliptic-ovate to lance-ovate, (4–)6–9(–12) mm. |
8–13+, lanceolate, (3–)4–6+ mm. |
Calyculi | of (2–)6–7(–10) ± spreading, oblanceolate or lanceolate to linear, ± foliaceous bractlets or bracts 7–35(–60) mm, margins (entire or serrate) sometimes sparsely ciliate, abaxial faces hispidulous near bases, distally glabrous. |
of 8–13 usually spreading, narrowly lanceolate, oblanceolate, or subulate to linear bractlets 2–5 mm, margins entire, usually ciliate, abaxial faces usually glabrous. |
Heads | borne singly or in 2s or 3s. |
usually borne singly, sometimes in open, ± corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | blackish to purplish or brown, ± flattened, sometimes weakly 3(–4)-angled, usually cuneate to linear, outer (3–)6–7(–10) mm, inner (4–)6–9(–11) mm, margins proximally antrorsely to patently, distally retrorsely, barbed, apices ± truncate to concave, faces ± 1-nerved, usually smooth, seldom notably tuberculate, glabrous or sparsely strigillose; pappi 0, or of (1–)3–3(–4+) ± erect to spreading, retrorsely barbed awns (0.2–)2–3(–6) mm. |
outer red-brown, obcompressed, cuneate, 6–7 mm, margins not ciliate, apices truncate, faces 2-grooved, antrorsely tuberculate-hirtellous; inner dark brown to blackish, ± equally 4-angled, linear-fusiform, 10–14 mm, margins not ciliate, apices ± attenuate, faces glabrous; pappi of 2(–3), erect, retrorsely barbed awns (1–)2–4 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
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Bidens tripartita |
Bidens bigelovii |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. | Flowering Sep. |
Habitat | Marshes and other wet sites | Along streams, other wettish sites |
Elevation | 10–1700 m [30–5600 ft] | 900–2000 m [3000–6600 ft] |
Distribution |
AK; AL; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; QC; Europe; Asia; n Africa [Introduced in Pacific Islands, Australia]
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AZ; CO; NM; OK; TX; Mexico
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Discussion | Plants with cypsela mid-nerves strongly developed (cypselae more or less strongly 4-angled and, often, tuberculate) that are treated below as Bidens connata have been included in B. tripartita, perhaps rightly so. And some botanists have included (or advocated inclusion of) B. eatonii, B. heterodoxa, and/or B. infirma in B. tripartita, as well, perhaps rightly so. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 217. | FNA vol. 21, p. 210. |
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Synonyms | B. comosa | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 831. (1753) | A. Gray: in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 91. (1859) |
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