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Devil’s Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa): Images

Date Location Notes Images
September 2, 2011 Southeastern, New Hampshire In New Hampshire, there are only a few plants of the Bidens genus with odd pinnately-compound leaves. That means that along each leaf is one or more sets of opposite leaflets and the leaf ends in a terminal leaflet (making an odd number of leaflets):
  • Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa): Flower head with well-developed rays.
  • Small Beggarticks (Bidens discoidea): 3-5 outer bracts that are not ciliate.
  • Big Devil’s Beggarticks (Bidens vulgata): 10-16 (typically 13) outer bracts that are ciliate.
  • Devil’s Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa): This plant. 5-10 outer bracts, (typically 8) that are ciliate.