Bearded Beggarticks
Bidens polylepis Blake
Bearded Beggarticks: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/17226
Synonyms
Long-bracted Tickseed Sunflower  Ozark Tickseed-sunflower 
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Status

Bearded Beggarticks is native to the central United States, and has become naturalized in the Atlantic states.

Description

Look for the distinctive bracts, which are numerous, long and narrow, curling or reflexed, and serrate or ciliate on the margins. The leaves are compound, with leaflets that are linear to narrowly lanceolate.

Where To Find

Bearded Beggarticks blooms profusely in some roadside ditches, low fields and marshes in Maryland. The flowers turn sizeable swaths of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (Dorchester County, Maryland) into a sea of bright yellow in late summer.

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Source: Wikipedia

Bidens polylepis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Bidens
Species:
B. polylepis
Binomial name
Bidens polylepis
Synonyms[1]
  • Bidens involucrata (Nutt.) Britton 1893, illegitimate name not Phil. 1891
  • Bidens involucrata var. retrorsa Sherff
  • Coreopsis involucrata Nutt.

Bidens polylepis is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to south-central Canada (Ontario) and to the eastern and central United States (from Michigan and New Jersey south and west to South Carolina, New Mexico, and Colorado).[2]

Bidens polylepis is an annual herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. It produces as many as 3 yellow flower heads per branch, each head containing both disc florets and ray florets. The species grows in marshes, flood plains, and disturbed sites.[2]

Bidens polylepis is very closely related to Bidens aristosa, and they are known to intergrade over a broad geographic range. Because of this, they have been combined as a single entity by some authors.[3]

References

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  1. ^ The Plant List, Bidens polylepis S.F.Blake
  2. ^ a b Flora of North America, Bidens polylepis S.F.Blake
  3. ^ Yatskievych, George (2006). Flora of Missouri, Volume 2. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. p. 454.