beggarticks (Bidens sp.)

Bidens

Summary 2

Bidens is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. The common names beggarticks, black jack, burr marigolds, cobbler's pegs, Spanish needles, stickseeds, tickseeds and tickseed sunflowers refer to the fruits of the plants, most of which are bristly and barbed, with two sharp pappi at the end.

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  1. (c) Shipher (士緯) Wu (吳), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/13940097@N04/3346351331
  2. Adapted by Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidens

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