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§1 Plant
Bidens laevis (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
vernacular smooth beggartick — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Bidens
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 208 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 52 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 145 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 3.3 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
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 130,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- 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 208 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Franklin 12037
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Osceola 12097
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- De Soto 22031
- East Feliciana 22037
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafourche 22057
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Red River 22081
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- West Feliciana 22125
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Bronx 36005
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schenectady 36093
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Amelia 51007
- Arlington 51013
- Brunswick 51025
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Hanover 51085
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Loudoun 51107
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Roanoke 51161
- Southampton 51175
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BILA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5391813 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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