Beggarticks
Bidens frondosa L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 41 cm
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Devil's beggartick, Devil's Beggarticks
Formerly Bidens melanocarpa
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canada to U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 20 cm to 61 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orangeRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Azerbaijani
- Çoxyarpaq yatıqqanqal
- Czech
- dvouzubec černoplodý
- German
- Dichtbelaubter Zweizahn, Schwarzfrüchtiger Zweizahn
- Finnish
- seljarusokki
- French
- bident à fruits noirs
- Italian
- Forbicina peduncolata
- Japanese
- アメリカセンダングサ
- Dutch
- zwart tandzaad, Zwart tandzaad
- Polish
- Uczep amerykański
- Chinese
- 大狼把草, 大狼杷草, 大狼耙草
- Simplified Chinese
- 外国脱力草, 大狼杷草, 大狼耙草
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 大狼杷草
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Bidens frondosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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