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Bidens bidentoides
Delmarva beggarticks is a native annual wildflower of the mid-Atlantic and northeastern US coastal plain, grown mainly for wild or naturalistic planting. The key to growing it is consistently moist soil in a sunny, streamside or estuary-like setting.
Bidens bidentoides (formerly Diodonta bidentoides), commonly called swamp beggar's-ticks and delmarva beggarticks, is an annual, herbaceous, flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. 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.
Bidens bidentoides is native to Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The plant grows on the borders of streams and estuaries at an elevation of 0–10 metres from sea level.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
