Aquatic and Wetland Vascular Plants of the Northern Great Plains
49. Asteraceae, the Aster Family
3. Bidens L. -- Beggarticks4. Bidens connata Muhl. ex Willd. -- Stick-tights
Erect to spreading, glabrous annual 1-8 dm tall. Leaves simple and toothed or the lower ones incised to ternate, 4-15 cm long, 0.5-4 cm wide, acuminate, subsessile or tapering to a winged petiolate base. Heads discoid, campanulate to hemispheric, 1-2 cm across; outer involucral bracts 4-9, usually not much exceeding the head. Achenes with 2-4 retrorsely barbed awns, the body brown at maturity, 3.5-7 mm long, antrorsely barbed on the margins (and often on the faces), at least toward the base. Aug--Oct. Same habitats as B. cernua; c and e NE and scattered n to se ND; (N.S. and Que. to MN and se ND, s to NJ, MO and KS). B. tripartita L.
Previous Section -- Bidens comosa (A. Gray) Wieg.
Return to Family -- Asteraceae - The Aster Family
Next Section -- Bidens coronata (L.) Britt. -- Tickseed sunflower
