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§1 Plant
Bidens discoidea (Torr. & A. Gray) Britton
vernacular small beggarticks — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Bidens
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 310 counties across 27 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 52 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 130 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.1–7.1
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 5.2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 13,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 310 counties across 27 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Bureau 17011
- Calhoun 17013
- Champaign 17019
- Gallatin 17059
- Greene 17061
- Hancock 17067
- Hardin 17069
- Henderson 17071
- Jackson 17077
- Jefferson 17081
- Jersey 17083
- Johnson 17087
- Knox 17095
- Livingston 17105
- Massac 17127
- McDonough 17109
- McLean 17113
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Randolph 17157
- St. Clair 17163
- Union 17181
- Vermilion 17183
- Warren 17187
Indiana view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Adams 18001
- Blackford 18009
- Cass 18017
- Clark 18019
- Daviess 18027
- DeKalb 18033
- Elkhart 18039
- Gibson 18051
- Jay 18075
- Knox 18083
- Kosciusko 18085
- Montgomery 18107
- Porter 18127
- Posey 18129
- Pulaski 18131
- Randolph 18135
- St. Joseph 18141
- Steuben 18151
- Tippecanoe 18157
- Vanderburgh 18163
- Warren 18171
- Wells 18179
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- Winn 22127
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bronx 36005
- Clinton 36019
- Cortland 36023
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Jefferson 36045
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Camden 37029
- Chowan 37041
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Lenoir 37107
- Pasquotank 37139
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Randolph 37151
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Stanly 37167
- Tyrrell 37177
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Amelia 51007
- Augusta 51015
- Caroline 51033
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King George 51099
- Lunenburg 51111
- Middlesex 51119
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Rockingham 51165
- Southampton 51175
- Stafford 51179
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BIDI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5391837 ↗Record version
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