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Bidens frondosa
Also called Devil's Beggarticks, Beggarticks, Large Leaved Beggarticks, Beggar Ticks, Devil's Beggar Ticks, Stick Tights, Leafy Beggarticks
Devil's beggartick is a fast-growing annual herb in the daisy family, native to northern North America and widely naturalised in temperate parts of Europe and Asia. Its barbed seeds stick to clothing and fur, so it is grown mainly as a weed or a decorative wild flower.
Bidens frondosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an annual herb widespread across much of Canada and the United States. It is known in many other parts of the world as an introduced species, including Europe, Asia, Morocco, and New Zealand. Its many common names include devil's beggarticks, devil's-pitchfork, devil's bootjack, sticktights, bur marigold, pitchfork weed, tickseed sunflower, leafy beggarticks, and common beggar-ticks.
Bidens frondosa is native to northern North America. It is recorded as naturally occurring in the whole of the contiguous United States and Alaska, but not Montana, as well as all of Canada except for the three Arctic territories and Labrador. It does not naturally occur south to Mexico, but it is recorded by CABI as introduced there.
Eaton's beggarticks · Connecticut beggarticks · Estuary beggarticks · Bidens nudata · Hairy beggarticks · Manzanilla trepador · Big devils beggartick
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bidens frondosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
