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Bidens bidentoides is an uncommon North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the northeastern and east-central parts of the United States, the coastal plain of the States of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey plus the region around the Hudson River estuary in New York.[3] Common name is Delmarva beggar-ticks, in reference to the Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware, eastern Maryland, and eastern Virginia.[4]

Bidens bidentoides
1913 illustration[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Bidens
Species:	B. bidentoides
Binomial name
Bidens bidentoides (Nutt.) Britton
Synonyms[2]
Bidens bidentoides var. mariana (S.F.Blake) Sherff Bidens bipinnata var. biternatoides Sherff Bidens mariana S.F.Blake Coreopsis bidentoides (Nutt.) Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray Diodonta bidentoides Nutt.

Bidens bidentoides is an annual herb up to 90 cm (3 feet) tall. It usually produces flower heads one at a time, the heads containing both disc florets and ray florets. The species grows along the banks of streams and estuaries.[5]

References

External links

• Friends for the Abbott Marshlands, Aree estuarine beggar-ticks^{[permanent dead link]}
• Bob Cunningham | all galleries >> Threatened and endangered plants in NJ > Bidens bidentoides- Estuary Beggar Ticks

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