Bidens pilosa L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Bidens pilosa L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Annual, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, 3-10 dm. high, more or less branched. Leaves petioled, 3 -divided, their segments ovate to lanceolate, 2-8 cm. long, serrate, acute or acuminate, the uppermost sometimes undivided; involucre campanulate, about 8 mm. high, its outer bracts Linear-oblong, usually shorter than the inner; rays, when present, white, 1-2 cm. long, 2-3-lobed; aehenes fusiform, unequal, the inner longer than the involucre; pappus of 2-4 yellow, downwardly barbed awns.

  • Discussion

    Waste and cultivated ground. New Providence, Great Bahama, Andros, South Cat Cay, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Fortune Island and East Caicos : southern United States; West Indies and Bermuda; continental tropical America. White Beggarticks. SHEPARD'S-NEEDLE.

  • Distribution

    New Providence, Great Bahama, Andros, South Cat Cay, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Fortune Island and East Caicos : southern United States; West Indies and Bermuda.

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